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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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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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 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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I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
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The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
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I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.
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I think that whenever businesses harm the economy, harm workers, harm consumers, or undermine human rights in any way, then it is the role of the government to make sure that they don't do that and to make sure that markets are fair and they operate properly.
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The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
