Umberto Eco Quotes
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.
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The banks refused to deal with us, and they are still refusing, because of American gang-like actions.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
