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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quotes

There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: italian
Birth: December 23, 1896 - July 23, 1957

Topics

You Need Tell Prince

I think I've seen the first 'RoboCop' like 15 or 20 times. I'm like a kid that way.

Think Way First Kid Seen Like

Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes.

Light Sun Energy Used Bacteria Fuel

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

Life Love Character People Brave

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Fear Science Must Ourselves Really

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

Mary Doria Russell

School Anthropology Anatomy Doctorate

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Great Progress Effort People Gold

We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.

Me Looking Name You Back Know

'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

Me Looking Conversation Television

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.

Freedom Ideas Growing Up Think See

I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

Christopher Buckley

Space Laughter People Others Hang

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

Character You Find Understand Take

I love having my husband at home. Especially when I have to leave the country so he can take care of our children.

Love Home Children Husband Care He

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