Andrea Illy Quotes
“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.
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It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.
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Young people want to work.
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
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“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”
