Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Antonio Tabucchi

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• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Strong
  • Beginning

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• I don't feel closeted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Feel

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Better
  • Look
  • Customers

• When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Surround Yourself

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Percent
  • Active

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Moon
  • Going
  • Doctors

• After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Done
  • Brother
  • Parent

• There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Idea
  • Achieve

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Actor

• My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Family
  • Father
  • Italian

• Because of their age - long training in human relations - for that is what feminine intuition really is - women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise, and I feel it is up to them to contribute the kinds of awareness that few men... have incorporated through their education.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • Men
  • Long

• Low ceilings, low doors. I hate that. Oh my God, it's the worst. This world is too small for me.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • World
  • God
  • Small

• It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Important
  • May

• We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real