Cesare Pavese Quotes
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
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To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
