Cesare Pavese Quotes
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
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How often are you really realigning yourselves on strategy? And does it need to be faster, based on how quickly your market actually changes? The answer is usually yes.
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How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!
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You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.
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Life is love, heartache and strain,
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
