Alberto Moravia Quotes
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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Professor Eric Zolt of UCLA, said to me, "The VAT is such a good idea, mark my words, within five years, the U.S. will have a VAT." Then he said, "Of course, I've been saying that for 20 years."
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.
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For employers, mobility no longer means merely traditional expatriate placements, but moving jobs to where talented people are located.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
