Oriana Fallaci Quotes
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.
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We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will 'talk sense to the American people'. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.
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Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.
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My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
