Corrado Alvaro Quotes
The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I have matured a lot.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
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I was successful very quickly. I was on the cover of 'Vogue' before I knew it.
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The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile.
