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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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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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 am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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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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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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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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Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.
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No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
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We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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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.
