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 race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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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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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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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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Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.
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I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.
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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
