Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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I'll try anything once.
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?
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I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.
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When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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Tonight this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent: It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.
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His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: 'Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?' With an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'
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Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.
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I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
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Once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live...
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We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
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Misero è ben chi veder schiva il sole!
