Roberto Cavalli Quotes
Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
Quotes to Explore
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
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I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.
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When I make a photograph, I make love.
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My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
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I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
