Maurizio Cattelan Quotes

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.

Maurizio Cattelan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: September 21, 1960

Topics

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If you write a written book, you're gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person, that person - I couldn't be bothered with it.

Jimmy Page

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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Jennifer Weiner

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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

Meghan McCain

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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Mel Brooks

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One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

Anna Popplewell

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I made the choice to have the double mastectomy, and for me it felt like the right choice, and it turned out to be the right choice.

Amy Robach

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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Robin G. Collingwood

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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Robert Trout

TodayLearnYouNeverEmpirePress

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

Michael Shanks

FeelBackNowWantChangesOver

I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.

Jon Lovitz

YourselfPeopleThinkYouBe True

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

Dick Van Patten

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