Umberto Eco Quotes
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.Umberto Eco
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
Fareed Zakaria -
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
Becki Newton -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
Sam J. Jones -
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken -
If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
Uday Kotak
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams -
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies -
Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
Kate Mara -
TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
Landon Liboiron -
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
Camille Paglia -
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
Vaclav Klaus
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
Carl Bernstein -
I'm always late.
Sade Adu -
Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
Ramez Naam -
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
Ted Nugent -
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
Vernor Vinge
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar Bergman -
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
Oscar Wilde -
You can make it out of Unobtainium!
Dean Kamen -
I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.
A.M. Homes -
Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.
James Comey -
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
Umberto Eco