Cavour (Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso) Quotes
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
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I quite like being who I am.
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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
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There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
