Umberto Eco Quotes
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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Psychologism is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.
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Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
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I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.
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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
