Umberto Eco Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power -
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
Irwin Thomas -
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
Karen Mills -
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.
Eberhard Weber -
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono -
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
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.
Madeline Kahn -
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.
Jack Canfield -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
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.
Hannah Arendt -
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.
Gabrielle Giffords
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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.
Adam McKay -
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
Garrett Clayton -
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.
Rachael Taylor -
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes -
They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
Florenz Ziegfeld -
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
Kage Baker -
But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
Philip Gibbs -
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin -
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
George Carey -
A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.
Jared Polis -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco