Cesare Pavese Quotes
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
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Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.
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Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
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There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
