Umberto Eco Quotes
I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
Quotes to Explore
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.
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The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.
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It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
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I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
