Claudio Ranieri Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
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We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.
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Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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Everything starts with faith. Faith causes us to see good things in the future, and because of this we develop a vision of success and prosperity in life.
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There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.
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It's not possible to win all matches.
