Umberto Eco Quotes
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.Umberto Eco
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Patricia Schroeder -
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
Nathan Lane -
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Randy Neugebauer -
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Adam DeVine -
There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
Ted Sarandos
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
Barton Gellman -
We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
Jack Falahee -
I grew up with all kinds of people.
Vin Diesel -
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida -
Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
Rachel Zoe -
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus -
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
Larry Dixon -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
Samuel L. Jackson -
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo -
I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
Carlisle Floyd
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To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
Charles Buxton -
Everything is real on me.
Tamar Braxton -
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Marilyn Ferguson -
There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
Calvin Harris -
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
Barnabe Rich -
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco