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Quotes by Italian Authors
"In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs."
"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."
"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."
"Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community."
"For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent."
"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
"Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture."
"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart."
"It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ..."
"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."
"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."
"Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor."
"The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that."
"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole."
"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."
"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
"A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific."
"And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight."
"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?"
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension."
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
"I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration."
"I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor."
"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion."
"Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know."
"I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly."
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