Umberto Eco Quotes
Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
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Told ya. Born lucky - lucky and handsome. And today I'm gonna be free.
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Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
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But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
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Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
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Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
