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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists."
"I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters."
"But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more."
"Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion."
"I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!"
"It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention."
"I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important."
"In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement."
"The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower."
"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."
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
"Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again."
"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful."
"Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts."
"In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single homogeneous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language."
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
"The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom."
"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression."
"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
"We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban."
"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."
"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public."
"Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary."
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
"The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph."
"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."
"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."
"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many."
"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
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