Claudio Ranieri Quotes
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
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I consider myself a little weak.
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.
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To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
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I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
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If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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The friends I grew up with are still the people I surround myself with now. And even with the shows in other cities, too.
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I am the Thinkerman, not Tinkerman!
