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Music notes are discipline; they shape character and taste. It's a mistake to neglect music; it's an excellent teacher.

— Fedele Confalonieri

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The iPod: a little box that's a shortcut to mental laziness.

Berlusconi has always been seen as an outsider by the magistrates—albeit not all of them—and by the left-wing press. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy; it's a coincidence of strategies.

[Referring to Berlusconi] The "ad personam" laws? He makes them to protect himself. If you don't pass "ad personam" laws, you 'll go to prison.

Ministers don't earn much, but they have a status and a sense of fulfilment that should be enough; they should be content with that.

The truth is, if [Silvio Berlusconi] hadn't gone into politics, if he hadn't founded Forza Italia, today we would be under a bridge or in prison on mafia charges. There was no way we were going to win an acquittal in the Mondadori case.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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