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.
Garry Wills
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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.
Ed Bradley
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I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
Kate Walsh
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
Vanessa Ferlito
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
Sally Field
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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.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
Samuel Foote
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell
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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.
Camila Alves
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
Natalia Kills
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
Bear Grylls
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Vidal Sassoon
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
Adam Clarke
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Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
Antonio Negri
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Good dog! Nice fetch!" "He wasn't fetching." "Bring her here, boy. Good job!" The dog looked from Zack to me. "I've been training him," Zack said. "Up till now he's brought home only dead rabbits, but I guess he's finally getting the hang of it.
Elizabeth Chandler
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We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
Ted Cruz
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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.
Umberto Eco