Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

Antonio Tabucchi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: September 24, 1943 - March 25, 2012

Topics

PerfectionDemocracyMeansVigilance

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

Jo Brand

ManRebelliousSensitiveVeryDad

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

John Reed

TimeGovernmentPeopleWeakAct

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

John Tesh

MusicYouLakeEarlyRailroadFunk

Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form.

Stephen McFeely

NatureWritingLongYouMorePlot

I never borrowed clothes from Beyonce when we were growing up. But now my style is a little more tame and hers is a little more adventurous.

Solange Knowles

StyleGrowing UpClothesGrowingNow

I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating.

Steve Martin

LifeExperiencePeopleMeThinking

A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

Trey Burke

BestPeopleCollegeTeamOpinion

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

Russell Smith

NatureEveryoneEvidenceSensitive

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Rudolf Hilferding

CompetitionProfitInvestmentEqual

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.

Masahiro Tanaka

ConfidenceTrustWinPerformance

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Mike Gordon

HistoryGreatBeenLotSongwriters

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Michael Shermer

PrinciplesExploringUpAnalysis

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