Cesare Pavese Quotes
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
