Eugenio Montale Quotes
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.
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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
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One can only blaspheme if one believes.
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Good wrong ideas are extremely scarce... and good wrong ideas that even remotely rival the majesty of string theory have never been seen.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The label didn't want me to do this look. But cutting my hair, it made me stand out as an artist. I don't care who likes it-this is me.
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The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
