Cesare Pavese Quotes
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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Dance is my passion.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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Psychologism is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.
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The standard of permanent Christianity must be kept clear in our minds and it is against that standard that we must test all contemporary thought. In fact, we must at all costs not move with the times.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.
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A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.
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I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.
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The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
