Carlo M. Cipolla Quotes
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
Quotes to Explore
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I like game shows.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
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I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
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Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.
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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
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I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with.
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I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
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The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
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My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.
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A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
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Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
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In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.
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My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
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...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
