Italo Calvino Quotes
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.
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Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
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I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
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All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
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I succumbed to hedonism.
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People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
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Every night, it's a bakery on the bus. It's a curse, because I talk about how much I love cake, people bring me cake. And now I just found out I'm diabetic, so I'm like, are you kidding me?!
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One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
