Paolo Sorrentino Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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I love Twitter.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
