Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank?
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PAOLO SORRENTINO I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because peo...
PAOLO SORRENTINO What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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PAOLO SORRENTINO I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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PAOLO SORRENTINO I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
PAOLO SORRENTINO Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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PAOLO SORRENTINO Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but th...
PAOLO GENTILONI I know that many in Germany think we have a merry financial policy over here.
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PAOLO GENTILONI I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the st...
PAOLO GENTILONI Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
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PAOLO GENTILONI I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure t...
PAOLO GENTILONI The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a...
PAOLO GENTILONI On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decisi...
PAOLO GENTILONI Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
PAOLO GENTILONI If it is true that there is an origin of language and if it is true that the origin of language is o...
PAOLO BARTOLONI You can fall ill with just a memory.
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PAOLO GIORDANO Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.
PAOLO GIORDANO All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's...
PAOLO GIORDANO The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.
PAOLO GIORDANO He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she ...
PAOLO GIORDANO She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone e...
PAOLO GIORDANO Instead of preaching the importance of happiness, be happy and people will follow your example.
PAOLO COELHO Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting.
PAOLO BONAIUTI All those who are using Venice for their own interests must make a contribution to preserve the myth...
PAOLO COSTA They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed s...
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PAOLO GIORDANO Entrambi respirarono un po' di quell'affetto che ancora resisteva tra di loro, diluito
lungo ce...
PAOLO GIORDANO Neither side reached 50 percent (in the lower house) and the margin is under 25,000 votes. Such a ti...
PAOLO BONAIUTI Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.
PAOLO BONAIUTI The electoral campaign has begun.
PAOLO BONAIUTI Here it comes, right in time for the election, the vote of the Milan prosecutors' office.
PAOLO BONAIUTI Seeing as there's such a narrow gap between the two we demand that a scrupulous verification of the ...
PAOLO BONAIUTI Such a narrow difference demands that there be a careful verification of the vote count.
PAOLO BONAIUTI She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.
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CONNOR PAOLO Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at al...
PAOLO NUTINI I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day t...
CONNOR PAOLO I thought the long summer holidays would have helped me but instead when I started to train I felt w...
PAOLO MALDINI Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them...
PAOLO MAURENSIG What the hell are those?" Zach pushed at my foot with his finger.
"My boots."
...
THERESA PAOLO If only there was mouthwash for the brain. Brain wash. They could make a fortune on that stuff.
THERESA PAOLO ALHEMICAR
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PAOLO GIORDANO He could leave as early as tomorrow. This is proof that the European anti- terrorism laws work.
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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI I didn't think it would be this great. I didn't believe we could control the match in that way,
PAOLO DI CANIO We will try and get the fans on our side,
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PAOLO DI CANIO I will avoid certain situations, but I will continue my battles, without second thoughts and with ev...
PAOLO DI CANIO But I will continue my battle for liberty in other ways, with he help of the lawyers who assist me.
PAOLO DI CANIO I will always salute that way because it gives me a sense of belonging to my people.
PAOLO DI CANIO The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my f...
PAOLO DI CANIO It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine
if my affections do not become
Love? Very mu...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI I am a fascist, not a racist.
PAOLO DI CANIO I am fascist, not racist. I do the Roman (fascist) salute to greet our supporters and those who shar...
PAOLO DI CANIO For to a boy it can seem
that he shall never have what he alone
has never had.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Total avoidance of alcohol, although optimum for cancer control, cannot be recommended in terms of b...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA Given the linear dose-response relation between alcohol intake and risk of cancer, control of heavy ...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA Alcohol is probably the main factor responsible for increased risk of head and neck cancer recorded ...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA The most recent version of the European code against cancer recommends keeping daily consumption to ...
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA Alcohol is underestimated as a cause of cancer in many parts of the world.
DR PAOLO BOFFETTA Total avoidance of alcohol, although optimum for cancer control, cannot be recommended in terms of b...
DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA Given the linear dose-response relation between alcohol intake and risk of cancer, control of heavy ...
DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA Alcohol is probably the main factor responsible for increased risk of head and neck cancer recorded ...
DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA The most recent version of the European code against cancer recommends keeping daily consumption to ...
DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA Alcohol is underestimated as a cause of cancer in many parts of the world.
DR. PAOLO BOFFETTA Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is sus...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI T’insegneranno a non splendere. E tu splendi, invece.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI I expect similar concept to pop up and the market will finally take off, probably sometime in 2005-2...
PIER PAOLO MUCELLI