Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Quotes
The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.
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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
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There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.
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The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
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It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
