Cesare Pavese Quotes
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.
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The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them.
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
