Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
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The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
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L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
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The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
