"It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit."

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Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.

Roberto Benigni

#Years Quotes #Four Quotes #Habit Quotes

“Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.”
“Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice”
“I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.”
“Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.”
“He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.”
“I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.”
“Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.”

Source : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge
“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.

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