Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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It took a long while for me to know that I'm beautiful. I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous. I've learned now that beauty starts from within.
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The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
