Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Nothing should be noticed.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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My opportunity to design school choice systems began in 2003 with a phone call from Jeremy Lack at the New York City Department of Education. He knew of my work on the medical match and wondered if similar efforts might help reorganize the dysfunctional, congested system then used to match students to high schools.
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Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.
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There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
