Umberto Eco Quotes
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.Umberto Eco
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
Eberhard Weber -
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
Laura San Giacomo -
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
Kate Winslet -
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
Samuel Hopkins -
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
Ed Markey -
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Daniel Bryan
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet -
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
Yishan Wong -
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
Walker Stapleton -
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Verne Troyer
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
Randolph Scott -
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
Carlo Rubbia -
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
Zana Marjanovic -
What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
Taya Kyle -
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz -
All my songs are where I am.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.
Joanne Rowling -
So she Eleanor Roosevelt is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?
Blanche Wiesen Cook -
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.
Christopher Bollen -
How can it be 'mutually beneficial' to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering, and to buy at world market prices the machinery produced in today's big automated factories?
Che Guevara -
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
Umberto Eco