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
-
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.
-
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.'
-
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
-
I like game shows.
-
I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
-
I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
-
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.
-
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
-
I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with.
-
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.
-
The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
-
I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.
-
'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.
-
I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph.
-
I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.
-
The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.
-
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
-
Our laws force women into celibacy on the one hand, or abortion on the other. npg Both conditions are declared by eminent medical authorities to be injurious to health.
-
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
-
If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.
-
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
