Donna Leon Quotes

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Donna Leon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 29, 1942

Topics

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The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

Mel Gibson

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I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

John Ruskin

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I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

Stephen Fincher

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The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

Trent Reznor

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I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

Tommy Hilfiger

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It's very, very difficult to win golf tournaments.

Jason Day

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I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

Christina Ricci

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I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Cory Doctorow

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I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

Shannon Hoon

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I feel like I look 16 sometimes, which is a bummer, because I would love to date older guys.

Selena Gomez

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