Umberto Eco Quotes
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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A queen never walks. Yet you are walking.
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A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
