Cesare Pavese Quotes
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
