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Italo Calvino Quotes

I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Guy Old-Fashioned Like Bourgeois

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Friend Relationship Partner Will

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

Women Age Great Time Man Proud

And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

Stephen Cambone

War Preparation Support People Group

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

Strength Wisdom Hero Romantic Law

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld

Acting Enemy Living Intelligent Us

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

Music People Deep Feel You Emotions

Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.

People Rest Just Because Hollywood

Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.

Christy Turlington

Life I Am Face Better Look Want

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

Good Communication Coffee Black Hard

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

Ideas Political My Own Up Own Come

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

William H. Wharton

Together People Last Necessary None

What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.

Happiness Joy Happy People World

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