Umberto Eco Quotes
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.
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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
