Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
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What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
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I remember I used to watch 'Buffy,' and I'd be like, 'Ah man, I would kill to be on 'Buffy,' to be part of that little crime-solving team fighting demons and monsters.'
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I usually go to Lush for hair products. I had no idea that this existed, but they have a shampoo rock, and it looks like a bar of soap, and I was tripping out when they told me it was a shampoo, so that's pretty sweet.
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
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Thor is a god who's lived in Asgard most all his life, but I think he still has a sense of awe and wonder about the place. I want us, as readers, to have that same sense of awe whenever we see, finally see, the golden spires of Realm Eternal.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.
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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.
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When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.
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I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
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The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
