Alessandro Baricco Quotes
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.
