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I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common.
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.
Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.
My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit - not the superhero, but the common man.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
Well, Drew. Makes you feel any better. There's one thing that Kelly and this title have in common. They'll never be seen with you.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.
What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.
You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare