Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
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I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction.
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While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.
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I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.
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The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
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The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.
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I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
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I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
