Alessandro Baricco Quotes
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.
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I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
