Alberto Tomba Quotes

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

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• I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Technology

• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Loss
  • Benefit
  • Sovereignty

• I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Political
  • Control

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • School
  • Friends
  • Me

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lying
  • Changing
  • Bed

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Book
  • Always
  • Nose

• It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Literature
  • Lives
  • Times

• I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.

  

  Adam Smith

• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Bible

• Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Career
  • Like
  • Point

• Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Why
  • Violence

• Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

  

  Alberto Tomba
  • Why
  • Career
  • Victory