Marcello Giordani Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
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I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed to do it. But my editor persisted, and eventually I thought, 'He's right. I should write this book.'
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I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.
