Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
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I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.
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I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
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Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.
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I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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Natura inchina al male, e viene a farsiL'abito poi difficile a mutarsi.
