Alda Merini Quotes
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Respect the burden.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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One's thoughts turn towards Hope.
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There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.
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DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.
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In private school, I definitely judged myself against the lighter-skinned girls. I wanted to have different hair. I wanted to fit in. I thought that was more beautiful.
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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“No one brushes my hair as well as the wind.”
