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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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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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
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There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
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On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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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.
