"Nuovo" - Gianmaria Testa

I heard that song (plus a long interview) by chance on a French radio yesterday evening.

Nuovo is the new song by the Italian singer Gianmaria Testa, from his new album "VitàMia".

Listen to it, this song is so relaxing and melodious !

Plus, with the clip, you'd like to travel to beautiful Italian landscapes !

Enjoy...

(c) "Nuovo" da Gianmaria Testa

(c) Soggetto e Regia di Giuseppe BATTISTON e Matteo OLEOTTO

(c) Direttore della fotografia Ezio GAMBA

(c) Montaggio Edoardo BARTOCCETTI

(c) Service SALT & LEMON

(c) Prodotto da Paola Farinetti per Produzioni Fuorivia

Lyrics "Nuovo"

Nuovo come un giorno che non c'era
Come la sera quando arriva già

Nuovo com'è nuova la stagione
E nuovo il nome che la chiamerà

Nuovo di promessa mantenuta
Nuova la voce sconosciuta
Che la tiene e la terrà

Nuova questa mano che ti tocca
Nuova la bocca che ti parlerà

Nuovo da lasciare un gusto in gola
Nuovo come una parola che non so
Nuovo che se chiamo e non rispondi
Molto forte, molto più forte
Ti chiamerò

Nuovo come un'altra volta ancora
Per chi non c'era e non sapeva già

Nuovo com'è nuova la canzone
Per ogni voce che la canterà

Nuovo che ti lascia un gusto in gola
Nuovo come la parola che non so
Nuovo che se chiamo e non rispondi
Molto forte, sempre più forte
Ti chiamerò

All I want for Christmas is YOUUUUUUUUUU !!!

"All I want for Xmas is YOUUUUUUUU!"

Love Actually

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Christmas is a time to be together.
Xmas is a time to go back home.
Xmas is a time to travel.
Xmas is THE time when airports and trains are crowded.

Xmas is a time to celebrate.
Xmas is a time to sing.
Xmas is a time to pray.
Xmas is a time to eat too much delicious food.
Xmas is a time to rest.
Xmas is a time to experience peace.

Xmas has always been a time to watch movies too.
French TV always broadcast many of them between Xmas and New Year's Eve.
We'll have "Gone with the wind" again.
We'll have many cartoon (Disney, Asterix...) too.
We'll have Xmas movies too.

Xmas holidays start today in France.
I wished my friends to enjoy this time with their family.
"Merry Xmas and see you in 2012"

I can't imagine that 2011 started almost a year ago.
Time goes by too fast.
Luckily even when life is hard, you have your relatives.
That's what really matters.

"Love Actually" always makes me feel happy & Xmas-y, laugh, sing and want to live in London.
I know the dialogues by heart.

It gathers most of the best British sexiest actors.

Enjoy !

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(c) "Love Actually" - Studio Canal

Lo Que Más - Shakira

"Eres lo que mas he querido en la vida." *

Shakira

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*English translation :

"You are what I wanted the most in my life."

(c) "Lo Que Más" by Shakira

(c) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment US Latin LLC

Lyrics :

Cuántas veces nos salvó el pudor

Y mis ganas de siempre buscarte

Pedacito de amor delirante

Colgada de tu cuello un sábado de lluvia a las 5 de la tarde

Sabe dios

Como me cuesta dejarte

Y te miro mientras duermes

Mas no voy a despertarte

Es que hoy se me agoto la esperanza

Porque con lo que nos queda de nosotros ya no alcanza

Eres lo que mas he querido en la vida

Lo que mas he querido

Eres lo que mas he querido

En la vida

Lo que mas he querido

Cuántas veces quise hacerlo bien

Y pequé por hablar demasiado

No saber donde como ni cuando

Todos estos años caminando juntos

Ahora no parecen tantos

Sabe dios

Todo el amor que juramos

Pero hoy ya no es lo mismo

Ya no vamos a engañarnos

Es que soy

Una mujer en el mundo

Que hizo todo lo que pudo

No te olvides ni un segundo

Que eres lo que mas he querido

En la vida

Lo que mas he querido

Eres lo que mas he querido

En la vida

Lo que mas he querido

Happy Holidays

Since it's December, 1rst today, there was no doubt that the Thursday quote would be about Christmas. I started listening to Xmas Carols and specially the ones sang by Frank Sinatra.

Here are two of them ("Jingle Bells" and "White Christmas") from the great movie "Happy Holidays" (1957), starring Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. 

I particularly like the "Jingle Bells" scene.

The comment on Youtube linked to the video of "White Christmas" is really interesting and is worth being read if you like cinematographic history (I hope that this expression is correct in English...). 

Anyway...

Enjoy !

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"Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight


Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh


A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
We got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot"

(c) "Jingle Bells" performed by Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby 

   

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"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow


I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white


I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white"

(c) "White Christmas" performed by Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

The 5-wish list

Days are getting sorther.

Today the sky is white in Paris.

It's cold outside.

Winter will be soon there.

On the other side of the Ocean, it's Thanksgiving.

Millions of American celebrate this special day.

Today I invite you to stop 5 minutes.

Take 5 minutes for yourself.

Take a sheet of paper and a pencil.

Write the main 5 things you wish to achieve within the 6 next months.

Realistic goals.

5 things you want to change.

5 wishes you've never dared to say

5 ideas you've always wanted to get real.

5 things you never have time to do.

Then

Write how you could achieve each goal.

Your strengths.

Your weaknesses.

What you could do to succeed.

Write how much time you need for each point.

Keep that paper.

Near you.

So that you can se it regularly.

So that when it's hard, you can focus on your goals.

Then...

ACT

Because with written, clear goals, you'll know "where you go".

I'd written mine almost a year ago.

It helped me even if my 5 wishes did not ALL become real.

I've just written a new list.

My 5 wishes.

My 5 goals.

My 5 forth-coming achievements.

International Skating competition in Paris

If you're in Paris this week-end and want to attend an international figure skating competition, do not hesitate, RUN buying tickets.
You won't regret it.

The Trophée Eric Bompard is one of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Competition. Thus (and since it is in Paris), it attracks every year most of the best skaters from all over the world. 


I told you, do not hesitate, run attentding it !

 (c) Trophée Eric Bompard 2011

Change

"If you don't like something change it;

If you can't change it,

Change the way you think about it."

Mary Engelbreit

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"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

Flora Whittemore

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"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions 
that can change your life forever."

Keri Russell

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(c) Kimi Ga Kureta Natsu

Greek wisdom and proverbs

Greek wisdom...

"Since we cannot change reality,

let us change the eyes which see reality."

Nikos Kazantzakis

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"It is during our darkest moments 

that we must focus to see the light."

Aristotle Onassis

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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

Nikos Kazantzakis

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"Everything in this world has a hidden meaning."

Nikos Kazantzakis

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"The language of truth is unadorned and always simple."

Ammianus Marcellinus

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"I am a citizen, 
not of Athens or Greece, 
but of the world"

Socrates

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"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."

George Santayana

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Greek Proverbs...

"Danger can only be overcome by more danger"

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"He who suffers much will know much"

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"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom"

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"One minute of patience, 

Ten years of peace"

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"The beginning is half of every action"

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"Before you can score, 

You must have a goal"

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"After the war, aid."

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"Act quickly, think slowly."

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"Eat and drink with your relatives; 

Do business with strangers."

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"Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom."

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"Many men know how to flatter, 

Few men know how to praise."

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"One witness one liar; 

More witnesses, all liars."

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"Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice."

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"Success is doing what you like 
and making a living at it."

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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" Pablo Picasso

"Every child is an artist. 

The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

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"I am always doing that which I can not do,

in order that I may learn how to do it."

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"Inspiration does exist, 

but it must find you working."

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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions 

that come from all over the place: 

from the sky, 

from the earth, 

from a scrap of paper, 

from a passing shape..."

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"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, 

but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, 

transform a yellow spot into the sun."

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"There is no abstract art. 

You must always start with something. 

Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

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"We all know that art is not the truth, 

art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

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All those quotes are by Pablo Picasso

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 Two women running on the beach - Pablo Picasso

 Le pigeon aux petits pois - Pablo Picasso (1911)

Grand nu au fauteuil rouge - Pablo Picasso (1925)

Colombe - Pablo Picasso 

 

Cavalier à la pipe - Pablo Picasso (1968)

Enfant à la colombe - Pablo Picasso 

Lithographie Estampe - Pablo Picasso

 Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937)

  Le Rêve - Pablo Picasso (1932)

La Colombe de la Paix - Pablo Picasso (1949)

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." ALWAYS

"Stay Hungry,

Stay Foolish"

Steve Jobs

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Think different

Innovate
Create
Find what you love
Know what you truly want to become

Curiosity
Intuition
Love
Change
Faith
Death
Humility
Life

(c) Stanford University

(c) Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Here is a written transcription of Steve Jobs' speech.