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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.

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
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
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You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
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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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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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True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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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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Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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Journalism combines adventure with culture.
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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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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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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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We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
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