Carlo M. Cipolla Quotes

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Carlo M. Cipolla

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Money
  • Personal
  • Manners

• Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • People
  • Book
  • Sun

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trouble

• The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Story
  • First
  • Old

• Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.

  

  Young Thug
  • People
  • Real
  • Light

• Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Sweet
  • Magical
  • Shell

• Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Different
  • Relationship

• I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Forever
  • Door

• This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.

  

  Jason Giambi
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Money

• So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Long

• Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Today

• I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Past

• I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.

  

  Belinda Carlisle
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Sea

• I had a great run with WWE. WWE gave me great visibility. I met my wife there, and I got paid a lot of money; it was just my time to go. I sensed it. I was smart enough to leave. That's the bottom line.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Small
  • Flying

• My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Music
  • Future
  • House

• We all do stupid things.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Things
  • Stupid

• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Creative
  • Genius
  • Individual

• It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Community
  • Individual
  • Would

• First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Believe
  • Stupid
  • Innocent

• Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

  

  Carlo M. Cipolla
  • Stupid
  • Individual
  • Stupidity