Umberto Eco Quotes
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
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That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.
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The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
