Umberto Eco Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
Edith Pearlman -
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln -
My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
Laura Fraser -
I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
Warren Beatty -
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jung
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
J. C. Chandor -
The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Zadie Smith -
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
Laura Marling -
Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
Rachel Brosnahan -
The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
Taylor Lautner -
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Zhang Yimou -
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
Ralph Bunche -
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
Sammy Cahn -
My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
Rainn Wilson
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That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Isaac Newton -
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.
William Stanley Jevons -
And everything in the world that mattered was in the happy stories Andrés was telling. And everything in the world was Ileana listening to the brother she loved. And everything in the world was waiting.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
Umberto Eco