Alberto Tomba Quotes
I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
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My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.
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There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
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I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.
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I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!
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The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.
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Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
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I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
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Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
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It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.
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Why can't a woman be more like a man?
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If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.
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I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.
