Alberto Moravia Quotes
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.
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I didn't have a record player.
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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I don't sing them because I couldn't sing them as well as she did. I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
