Umberto Eco Quotes
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.
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I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
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I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
