Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
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The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
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I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.
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The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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I do work hard, but I have a passion for work. That's just who I am.
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He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.
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The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.
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Heroes can be sweet.
