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Quotes by Italian Authors
"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."
"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
"You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country."
"Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing."
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
"And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years."
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics."
"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."
"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."
"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."
"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
"I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon."
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
"And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan."
"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
"When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger."
"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
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