Umberto Eco Quotes
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
Kate Winslet -
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis -
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
Walter Isaacson -
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter -
Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
Pablo Sandoval
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Felix Dennis -
The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
Patrice Motsepe -
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
Najib Razak -
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
Ira Glass -
When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
Olivier Megaton
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
Gary Bettman -
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
Harold Edward Holt -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle -
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
Wale
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Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.
Colleen McCullough -
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
Blaise Pascal -
Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
Wanda Sykes -
I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.
Lisa Lampanelli -
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Umberto Eco