Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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I've only done four or five episodes of 'Two and a Half Men,' and its amazing how many people recognize me for that more than anything else in my career.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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I sleep around 8 hours, but I tend to wake up several times a night with constant dreams, thoughts, and ideas related to Rent the Runway.
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Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.
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Those who came to France came to find France, not to turn it into their country of origin. If that's what they wanted, they should've stayed in their country.
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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
