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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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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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 most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.
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My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
