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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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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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.
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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, - Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, - Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
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I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.
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The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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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?
