Roberto Cavalli Quotes
The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
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I've always loved a challenge.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
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I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
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When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I can do small things in a great way.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
