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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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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I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!
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The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and the Reapers, and being in the driver's seat to end the galaxy and all of these big plot lines, to decide what civilizations are going to live or die: All of these things are answered in Mass Effect 3.
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
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One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off.
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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?
