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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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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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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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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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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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
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I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.
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I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
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One of the reasons so many kids bought Famous Monsters was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.
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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
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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.
