Umberto Eco Quotes

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Umberto Eco

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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Want
  • Trump

• 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.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• 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!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• Women are complicated. We all know that.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Women
  • Know
  • Complicated

• Social peace requires reciprocity.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Peace
  • Social
  • Requires

• 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.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Way
  • Perspective
  • Situation

• 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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Most

• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Yourself

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Fall

• I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Job

• Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Great
  • Important
  • Science

• When I started modeling, it was like, 'Oh, she's too dark,' and I kind of looked at them like, 'You're too daft.'

  

  Alek Wek
  • She
  • Dark

• I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Life
  • Success
  • Guilty

• One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Poet