Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
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I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
