Umberto Eco Quotes
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I've been training quite hard.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.
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Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.
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The sequester is not something that I proposed. It's something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.
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Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
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Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
