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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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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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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed.
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We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
