Cesare Pavese Quotes
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
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My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I don't really flaunt any gadget, but I am loving my Nokia Lumia.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
