Italo Calvino Quotes
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
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Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.
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If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.
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You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.
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It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.
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We listen so much to everybody - more than ever, because we have a kabillion voices whose opinion we can access - and we care so much if everybody agrees with us. To bust through all of the noise is very challenging.
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
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You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
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I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.
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I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.
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I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
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Thought is a force - a manifestation of energy - having a magnet-like power of attraction.
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It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.
