Benedetto Croce Quotes
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I love to be surprised.
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I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.
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Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?
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How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.
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Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
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Language is articulated, limited sound organized for the purpose of expression.
