Umberto Eco Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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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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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
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Back in 2001, my first start-up was mentioned in the 'New York Times' and 'USA Today.' I figured that would drive thousands of visitors to the site and tons of new business. Instead, only a handful of people visited our site, and not much business came of it at all.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
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We obviously need his defense at some level. It's good to have him back in the offense, but we weren't smooth with him in there offensively, though.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
