Eugenio Montale Quotes
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon’s influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.
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When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.
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I like a challenge.
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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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A tip that I got from my mom that really helps keep my skin fresh is to wash my face with ice water in the morning. I love it. Just splash with water - cold water. That's the first thing I do every morning.
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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.
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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
