Alberto Moravia Quotes
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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As far as being onstage, commanding presence, I've always looked up to people like Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury and Paul Stanley - the rock gods. I've always wanted to be able to achieve that level of commanding nature onstage and really leading people at a show.
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Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
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I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.
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The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures.
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
