Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
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I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.
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With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one’s logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
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If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.
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My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.
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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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Che chi ne l'acqua sta fin'alla golaBen'e ostinato se merce non grida.
