Oriana Fallaci Quotes
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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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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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
