Eugenio Montale Quotes
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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Horror used to be one thing, and I think that's starting to broaden - there can have subgenres, and other things can be going on in a horror story. In comics, you'll never get the 'Boo' effect in a comic; you can go for mood, atmosphere and personal tragedy to build the horror elements and sense of dread.
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Figure skating is such an individual sport, but to have a teammate on the podium with you is unbelievable.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
