Roberto Benigni Quotes
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
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Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we'd try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.
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A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
