Cesare Pavese Quotes
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need for method acting. This is what I have learnt from Bharat Muni's 'Natya Shastra' and from the Russian theatre legend Stanislavsky.
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I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
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Every single film I've done, it's about the character.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!
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It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'
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While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French,And some’ll swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench;But I’m for right Jamaica till I roll beneath the bench,Says the old bold mate of Henry Morgan.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
