Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
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All our collaborations and touring have been rewarding. I’m open to collaborating with anybody, perhaps some of the younger artists, although I don’t actively pursue such cooperation.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
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He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
