Oriana Fallaci Quotes

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Oriana Fallaci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MomentCultureYouValuesPrinciples

I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.

Jeremy Irons

LifeFreedomGreatSchoolPeopleMe

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Matthew Macfadyen

YourselfSkillRealAble

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

John Shelby Spong

FamilyPeopleWantTraditionalOther

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

Sophia Amoruso

GoodJobSchoolCollegeBetterGo

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

Mo Yan

GreatWorldThinkChinaOutstanding

We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.

Josh Hartnett

LovedDoingWatchingUsShowMade

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Doug E. Fresh

ChangePeopleCreateHip-HopLevel

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.

Chris Cornell

FutureBestPersonalityI AmWish

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

David Shields

MusicArtPaintingForwardRoyalty

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

Antoni Porowski

BigFanHemingwaySalinger

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

Willie McCovey

ControlBetterWantCockySound

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

William Hung

GoodTimeTalentPeopleLaughIdiot

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