Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
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I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.
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You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
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Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.
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Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
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A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
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I know that sounds almost horribly cheesy, but that is what has to happen if you're gonna make a relationship work for a long time: You have to keep learning new things that are interesting about this person or having them catch you off guard and have these little moments of intense appreciation.
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It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
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I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
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There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
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I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.
