Umberto Eco Quotes
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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I just love being in the arts.
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The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
