Italo Calvino Quotes
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.
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It is probable that what we call thought is not an actual being, but no more than the relation between certain parts of that infinitely varied mass, of which the rest of the universe is composed, and which ceases to exist as soon as those parts change their position with regard to each other.
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I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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I have many, many gay friends.
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
