Umberto Eco Quotes
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground.
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The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
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When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
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Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
