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Romano Prodi Quotes

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: italian
Birth: August 9, 1939

Topics

Economy Big Italian Weakest European

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Love Time Words People Singing You

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.

Daily Think You House Play Living

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

People Me Writing Worry Clever Talk

I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of cooking.

Cooking Kind Toxic Anything Surface

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Chance Weakness Born Reason Out

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Good Memory Hearing Eyesight Going

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

Dead Always Originality Writer

I'm a body builder, so we do a lot of stuff on repetition.

Body Repetition Stuff Builder Lot

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Fire Soul Poetry Writing Feed How

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

Fear Medical I Am People Rest View

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

People Me Details Problem Guilty

My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.

Family Community Children School You

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