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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Oriana Fallaci
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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
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Florence
Tuscany
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Healthy
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
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Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
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I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
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But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madnessif you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.
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Journalism combines adventure with culture.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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