Top 26 Montanelli Indro Quotes
#1. He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.
Ben Aaronovitch
#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. 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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#7. You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.
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#8. Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.
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#9. Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.
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#10. What's the point in looking back," he told me in one email. "I'd rather
Brent Schlender
#11. 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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#12. [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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#13. 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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#14. I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.
Jason Aldean
#15. If you are only focused on the Money... You risk completely overlooking the People.
Ted Rubin
#16. 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. I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.
Jonny Lang
#19. Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
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#20. I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.
Andrew Stanton
#21. 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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#22. 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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#24. A real writer [ ... ] looks not in another writer but himself.
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#25. 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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#26. Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.
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