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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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 like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
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I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake'.
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I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
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In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death.
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
