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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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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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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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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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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Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.
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If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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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.
