Agnelli Gianni Quotes

#1. I am what I am not yet.

Maxine Greene

#2. The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

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#3. There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don't talk of them, I prefer talking to them

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#4. Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Roseanne Barr

#5. Today is the beginning of new history.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

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#7. Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.

Peggy Noonan

#8. You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!

Twiggy

#9. And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

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#10. Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

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#11. The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

Charles Rosen

#12. Willing's good," he whispers. "Wet's even better.

K. Bromberg

#13. Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

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#14. Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

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#15. All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

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#16. The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

Henri De Lubac

#17. And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

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#18. Descartes useless and unnecessary.

Blaise Pascal

#19. He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?

James Boswell

#20. Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

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