Umberto Eco Quotes
That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'
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It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.
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The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
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As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
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That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
