Alberto Moravia Quotes
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.
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Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.
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We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
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'It’s all PR,' said Hutchins. 'If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.'
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The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
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When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
