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Oriana Fallaci Quotes

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: italian
Birth: June 29, 1929 - September 15, 2006

Topics

Born Way Always Miracle Disobedience

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

Life Myself Angry Me Control Racing

A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

Time Appreciation World Elegance

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Sleep Crazy Night Little Get Four

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Girl Time Street First Time First

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Health People World Insurance Wealth

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Simon Wiesenthal

Myself I Am Survival I Can Privilege

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

Change Good Character Relationship

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

Daily Bullying School Jealousy Mind

The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.

Work Love People Something Sometime

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Mentor Filmmaking Fiction Documentary

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Think Criticism Afraid May Somebody

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

New York Brother Help Poverty Living

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