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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Fu il vincer sempremai laudabil cosa,Vincasi o per fortuna o per ingegno.
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I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.
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When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation...
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Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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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.
