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Quotes by Italian Authors
"In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm."
"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
"God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man."
"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension."
"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion."
"I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips."
"It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
"In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time."
"The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others."
"Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!"
"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."
"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
"It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master."
"These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time."
"Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round."
"Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."
"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
"He turns not back who is bound to a star."
"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret."
"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company."
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