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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I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
