Gabriele Amorth Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't do negative things.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go.
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I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.
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I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.
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People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
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Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
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Practicing yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.
