Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
Ida Lupino -
I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
Hank Snow -
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges -
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch -
When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
Natalie Dormer
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller -
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
Carlisle Floyd -
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade -
I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
Oscar de la Renta -
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
Jack Vance -
I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.
Larry Niven -
Before anything else Numa decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people.
Livy -
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
Mary Douglas -
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
Kathleen Sebelius
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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
John C. Hawkes -
There are no real men.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.
Channing Tatum -
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -
I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.
David Shuster -
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
Antonio Tabucchi