Carlo Goldoni Quotes
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.
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Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
