Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
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According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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Excess is excrement.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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Education liberates a woman.
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Sometimes things can be a guilty pleasure, but with 'Idol,' everyone talks about it like it's a real thing; they argue over who's gonna win... There's no laughing at it.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.
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Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
