Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
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• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • People
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  • Food

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
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• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
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• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
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• I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Think

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Strong
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• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
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  • You

• I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Media

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
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• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Small
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• As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • People
  • Remember
  • Together

• There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Today

• No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• “The husk of a man in the woods below me bled into a creek that fed into a river that sparkled gaily in the winter sun.”

  

  T. R. Pearson
  • Man
  • Sun
  • River

• When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Space