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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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
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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.
