"There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian."

-- Romano Prodi

#Italian Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese currency appreciated, and a sufficient realignment in exchange rates was realized. Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake.”
“I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.”
“It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.”
“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”
“I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.”
“...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.”
“Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.”
“Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.”

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