Gaspara Stampa Quotes
O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round – but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad – really bad – there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it.
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O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.
