Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
