Cesare Pavese Quotes
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
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What you see is what you get.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.
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If you look at Europe and see a continent adrift, with no identity and no strong values beyond economic equality and possessing little capacity to identify evil, let alone a will to fight it, then you need to start fighting.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
