Romano Prodi Quotes

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

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• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Know
  • City

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • American
  • Law

• What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movie
  • Learn
  • Find

• You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Movie
  • You
  • Fantasy

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
  • Love

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Scary
  • Because
  • Rehearsing

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Book
  • Travel

• What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Work
  • Different
  • Job

• Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Law
  • Peace

• A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Great
  • Business
  • Transformation

• As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Singing
  • Artist
  • Excuses

• I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Experience
  • Doctrine
  • Ethical

• We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Problems
  • Building

• It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

  

  Sarah Lacy
  • Company
  • Building
  • Easier

• I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Dream

• We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

  

  William James
  • Soul
  • Fighting
  • Moral

• We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • Building
  • Constitution
  • Importance