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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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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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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Some say he was a sailor who died away at seaSome say he was a prisoner who never was set freeLost upon the ocean he died there in the mistDreaming of a kissBitter Green they called her walking in the sunLoving everyone that she metBitter Green they called her waiting in the sunWaiting for someone to take her home
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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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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.
