Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.
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No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
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If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
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My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.
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Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
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Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
