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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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 stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
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I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!
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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
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I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
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I would say it was about time that you believe in something. And sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll ain't it.... A lot of people used to think they were.
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If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
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Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
