Venice Quotes - Page 10

• I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on.

  Charlie Munger

  Book, Long, Heyday

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• I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

  John Guare

  Names, People, Water

  "Six Degrees of Separation". www.imdb.com. December 8, 1993.

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• I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Beach, Apollo, Like You

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

  Ben van Berkel

  Mother, Cities, House

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• Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

  George Clooney

  Cities, Looks, Prettiest

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• Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

  Eli Roth

  Want, Casting, Auditions

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

  Gore Vidal

  Alps, My Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the other day. These people did two, even three Documentas or Venice Biennales over the course of a decade without any fuss. They would just treat it as any of their other engagements, with the same level of dignity and commitment they'd reserve for a one-day event in a small gallery on the Austrian mountains.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Book, Commitment, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

  Charlie Munger

  Business, Power, Civilization

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• I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Lips, Barefoot

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.295, Bloomsbury Publishing

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