Umberto Eco Quotes
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
