Romano Prodi Quotes

In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

Romano Prodi

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• I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Celebrity
  • Prove
  • My Own

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Team
  • Kid
  • Pool

• During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Comedy
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Small
  • Breathing
  • Charm

• Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Military

• 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • You
  • Food
  • Couple

• I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Play
  • Like
  • King

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Me
  • Sense

• Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Women
  • Children

• I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Want
  • Television

• We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Know
  • Interested
  • Cause

• I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • America
  • Culture

• I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Great
  • Important
  • History

• Modern European composers…have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.

  

  George Gershwin
  • America
  • Age
  • Thoughts

• “I’ve learned that history is the autobiography of the historian, that ignoring the past is the act of a fool, and that loyalty does not mean falling into line, but stepping out of it for the people you love.”

  

  Annie Barrows
  • History
  • Act
  • Autobiography

• My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.

  

  Daniel Buren
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

  

  Jared Harris
  • Up
  • Children
  • She

• In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • America
  • History
  • Today