Umberto Eco Quotes
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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Good material is good material.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
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I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.
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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
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I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action... It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
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And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
