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Roberto Benigni Quotes

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Roberto Benigni

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: italian
Birth: October 27, 1952

Topics

Parents Me Gift Poverty Village

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

Business Childhood Growing Up Grow

I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

Jessica Williams

Conflict Find Try Pretty Avoid Like

I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.

Lights Nice Want Being There London

I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.

People Me Think Someone Want Wear

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Life Sports Succeed Winning Game

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

Father Mother Happiness Purpose Key

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Time Angry Happy Long Long Time

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

Jay Alan Sekulow

Justice New Now Matter Without Up

As a cornerback, you only get probably about 5 chances to really impact the game.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Game Impact You Get Chances Only

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Work Growth Innovation Understanding

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

Truth Politics Think Loved New Know

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Work Home Happiness Depression Reach

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