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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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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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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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
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Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.
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I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.
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All truth is God's truth.
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Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.
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I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.
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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.
