Carlo Ponti Quotes
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I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.
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I don't practice. It's a gift. It's talent. Obviously, I do it all the time so it's like I'm practicing, but that's just what I do. Sometimes I'll be in the studio flipping through beats and I'll do something quick and people will be like, "What the?!" It's natural! I don't need to be nice like that, I just do it.
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
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I will live to make myself not feared.
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I don't make deals, I make pictures.
