Umberto Eco Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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This has been going on for about 12 years. It's not a one-off thing. There was vermin there and people have seen rats.
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I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.
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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
