Cesare Pavese Quotes
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.
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In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
