Umberto Eco Quotes
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!
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To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.
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I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.
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If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!