Alessandro Baricco Quotes
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.Alessandro Baricco
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
H. R. McMaster -
The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver -
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
Natalie Dormer -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern -
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
Zach Galifianakis -
And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
Eddie Albert -
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice Wood -
Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
Lionel Messi -
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
Claire Tomalin -
In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.
Lloyd Blankfein
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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
David Farr -
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
Amish Tripathi -
I've always been a direct guy.
Keith Matthew Thornton -
I think it makes a lot of sense and of course I love Christie Clark. I think she's awesome; she's beautiful and fun to work with. I think she has some really unique qualities to her that would bring a lot to the show.
Austin Peck -
Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.
Kevin Richardson -
I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.
Ashley Rickards
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What am I, a Frankenstein? What am I, some kind of an ogre? I'm a good person; I'm a warm person.
Donald Sterling -
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
Orson Welles -
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.
Samantha Harvey -
If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
Alessandro Baricco