Umberto Eco Quotes
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
Quotes to Explore
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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From its founding, Nevada has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
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As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.
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All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
