Loretta Napoleoni Quotes
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.
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Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.
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Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.
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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
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We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
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I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
