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Italo Calvino Quotes

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: italian
Birth: October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

Topics

Best Man Chance Information Know

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Jez Butterworth

Love Past Present Seeing Feeling

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.

Robert H. Schuller

Name Honor Real Jesus Minister

I took my pants off in my 'SNL' audition. It was to do a character called Out of Breath Jogger from 1982. I had short shorts on underneath. It eventually aired, so it was worth it!

Character Short Worth Pants Out Off

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

God I Am Infinite Without Out Here

Republicans in Hollywood hide. I'm challenging them to stand up and have courage. I won't be scared into submission.

Courage Stand Up Stand Hide Scared

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Women Humor Writing Drive You Look

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.

Women Men Down Way Lead Line

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Education Passion Freedom Children

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Work Door Brain Night Friday Week

I'm at that point in my career you can put up all the numbers you want to, you can swing whatever statistic you want to swing, but it doesn't matter if you don't get to the Super Bowl and win it.

DeAngelo Williams

Win You Career Numbers Want Swing

If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.

Constance Marie

Tree Happy Child Gym Jungle She

I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

Me Pilot Never Through Got Again

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