Adriano Giannini Quotes
My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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I had stage fright for years and years, and I could hear it in my singing. But since I've done it so often for so many years, you'd think that I'd relax a little bit, and I think that I have.
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I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.
