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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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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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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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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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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Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.
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Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
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Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
