Umberto Eco Quotes
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.Umberto Eco
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
Jack Reynor -
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
Karla Souza -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
Barry Ritholtz -
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
Maiara Walsh
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
Karen Finerman -
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
Parker Stevenson -
I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor -
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger -
Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
Nancy McKeon -
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang -
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Gail Sheehy -
I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
Caity Lotz -
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
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I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
Dave Goldberg -
To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.
Jean-Michel Jarre -
Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
Marissa Moss -
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
Umberto Eco