Francesco Guicciardini Quotes
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
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Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
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It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.
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To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
