Alda Merini Quotes
In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
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In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
