Alda Merini Quotes
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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History is not hatred.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
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One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
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I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.
