Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.
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The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.
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I don't want to be part of movies where I just sing and dance and go away.
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I've learned what looks too sexy or too tomboy or too cool for me! I know what suits me now.
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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
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Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
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I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they're doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.
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We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.
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I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator.
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I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
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I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
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No adultery is bloodless.
