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.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Walter Isaacson
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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.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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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.
Kate Adie
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
J. Irwin Miller
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
Caitlyn Jenner
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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.
Yulia Tymoshenko
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
Hannah Cowley
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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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.
Nadia Comaneci
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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.
Larry Holmes
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
Ramez Naam
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos
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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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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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.
Randall Terry
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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.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein
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Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.
Edward Herrmann
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
Abraham Verghese
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A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
Maika Monroe
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I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.
Erin McKean
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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.
Francesco Guicciardini