Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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Most computers today have built in backup software.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
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There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
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What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after – the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other.
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
