Cesare Pavese Quotes
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.
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One cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.
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In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
