Marco Polo Quotes
Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.
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The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.
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There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.
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I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
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The only way I can really stand apart is if I’m gonna be myself.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
