Umberto Eco Quotes
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
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Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
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Dance is my passion.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
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In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
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A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
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What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?
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If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
