Cesare Pavese Quotes
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
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I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.
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Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems
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Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.
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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.
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Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
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And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
