Oriana Fallaci Quotes

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Oriana Fallaci

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• Dog
• Strength
• Vulnerability

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

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• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

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• Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

  

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• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

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• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

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• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  

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• How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

  

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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  

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• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

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• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

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• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

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• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

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• There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring.

  

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• We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

  

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• America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • America
  • Dog