Umberto Eco Quotes
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I watch a lot of football.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
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Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.
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You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
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I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
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He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.
