Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I just can't read music.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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Music is how you feel.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.
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The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
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Right now, the offense has us on its back and it's carrying us. There will come a time when the pitchers will put us on its back and carry us.
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I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
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Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
