"Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things."

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Source : Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

Pietro Aretino

#Scholarship Quotes #Property Quotes #Disagreeable Quotes

“I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.”
“Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?”
“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.”
“Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.”
“Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.”
“In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.”
“I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity”
“If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.”

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