Renata Tebaldi (Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi) Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
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The apostates think that everybody is wrong but themselves.
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The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.
