Sergio Leone Quotes
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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The plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.
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That was a time when only the dead could smile, delivered from their wars, and the sign, the soul, of Leningrad dangled outside its prison-house...
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When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.
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Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
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Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
