Umberto Eco Quotes
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
