Author: Jon

“I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.”

— Umberto Guidoni, first European on board the International Space Station (born 1954)

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“Money is not everything.  My ambition was football itself, not the money I’d make from it.  If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that’s fine.  But I don’t spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.”

— Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974)

“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices.  What role does silence have in all this noise?”

— Federico Fellini (1920 – 1993)

“After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.”

— Dino De Laurentiis (1919 – 2010)

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“Fortune smiles upon our first effort.”

— Publius Vergilius Maro [Virgil] (70 BC – 19 BC)

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