Italo Calvino Quotes
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
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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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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
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You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.
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I don’t think that’s the answer he was looking for. It’s not the answer I was looking for. But maybe it’s the right one.
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
