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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
Journalism
Adventure
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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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 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.
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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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Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.
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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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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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Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
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If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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Physical courage is a great test.
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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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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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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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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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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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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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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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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