Carlo M. Cipolla Quotes
The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
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'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
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I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was of a school element.
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I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
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Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.
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In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.
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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.
