Oriana Fallaci Quotes
I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I have a great office.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.
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I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
