Umberto Eco Quotes

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Umberto Eco

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• Philosophy
• Lying
• Possibility
• Semiotics

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• I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.

  

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• I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

  

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• I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

  

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• I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

  

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• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

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• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

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• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
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• It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Old
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• A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.

  

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• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  

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• I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.

  

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• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

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• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  

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• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

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• Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

  

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• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

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• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

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• The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

  

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• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying