Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Music is how you feel.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming worry does not mean putting yourself in danger, but in having a calm attitude in dealing with difficulties and accepting what cannot be changed.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.
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The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
