Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
Vittorio Alfieri
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
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All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.
Victor Papanek
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She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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In this very moment I'm king In this very moment I slayed Goliath with a sling
Nicki Minaj
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Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.
David Fontana
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
William Shakespeare
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Incorruptible people do not exist at all. Everyone just has their own price.
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov
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When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'
Daniel Bryan
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I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.
Dakota Fanning
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For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
Vittorio Alfieri