Alessandro Nivola Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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This is Ze Frank, thinking so you don't have to. (Standard sign-off for 'The Show'; varies at times).
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We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.
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With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
