Italo Calvino Quotes
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
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My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.
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I have more faith now than I ever had before.
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Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before.
