Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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I love talking about myself.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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I am very blessed.
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.
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Diagnostic reliability isn’t an abstract issue: If doctors can’t agree on what ails their patients, there is no way they can provide proper treatment. When there’s no relationship between diagnosis and cure, a mislabeled patient is bound to be a mistreated patient. You would not want to have your appendix removed when you are suffering from a kidney stone, and you would not want have somebody labeled as “oppositional” when, in fact, his behavior is rooted in an attempt to protect himself against real danger.
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I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.
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You can learn at any age and at any moment in your life.
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
