Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
  • Woman

• Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Different
  • Same

• I don't know what love means.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Love
  • Know
  • Means

• Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Art
  • Choose
  • Balancing

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Studying
  • Boundless

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Growing
  • Politics
  • Identity

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Man
  • Nothing
  • Own

• I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Should
  • Say
  • Consider

• You're only as good as your last haircut.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Haircut

• If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • God
  • English
  • Arabic

• If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Control
  • Lost
  • Conversation

• I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'

  

  Alan Stern
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

  

  John Battelle
  • Today
  • Trust
  • Service

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

  

  Kurt Huber
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Friends
  • Talent
  • Equal