Umberto Eco Quotes
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I hate competition.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
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A man will talk all day about the woman he wants, but should he come across that woman, he'll do something stupid like cheat on her with the kind of woman he was trying to get away from in the first place. It's not a lot of second chances granted in the realm of that.
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I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.
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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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I was mortified by my parents - what they did, who they were, everything. I hated who I was. I hated everything, and I would live in a fantasy world and try to be different. But that's not a lot different, I think, than a lot of kids.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
