Claudio Magris Quotes
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
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As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.
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Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
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Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate feedback to what the robot is experiencing.
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The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
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History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
