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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A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?
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I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.
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The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding - the bright hope of good things to come - the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us - the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen - these are true gold, and lasting riches.
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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!
