Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
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In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.
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I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.
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People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
