Top 30 Indro Montanelli Quotes
#1. Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.
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#2. Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.
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#4. Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.
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#5. Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.
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#6. One of the tragic facts of human relations is the failure of people to realize that what they put out to other people they get right back from them.
Les Giblin
#7. I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.
Amanda Abbington
#8. Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant.
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#9. You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.
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#10. I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#11. Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.
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#12. Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.
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#13. Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.
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#14. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
#15. [Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.
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#16. Our Aim Is God: "We must constantly remember our aim is God. And we must not be concerned with anything that makes us forget Him."
Kirpal Singh
#17. The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.
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#18. Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
R.D. Laing
#20. The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Gary Larson
#21. Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
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#22. A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.
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#24. It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.
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#25. I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.
Judith Light
#27. A real writer [ ... ] looks not in another writer but himself.
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#28. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
Kurt Vonnegut
#29. I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
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#30. Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.
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