Umberto Eco Quotes
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
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It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
