Romano Prodi Quotes
But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)
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Mel is sensual with me. He treats me like an uncle - a dirty uncle. He's an earthy man and very moral underneath. He has traditional values.
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'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.
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I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.
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Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
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Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
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But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.
