Cesare Pavese Quotes
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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I've always loved a challenge.
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I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
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I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
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I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.
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Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
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I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.
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I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.
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I've written poetry most of my life.
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I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!
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You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
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Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.
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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
