Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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I hope of lightning our supply Will never be exhausted;You know it's lanterns in the skyFor angels who are losted.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.
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I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.
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He must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.
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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
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There is nothing that can, in the dark become true.
