Umberto Eco Quotes
Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.
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When you are at your lowest in life, no matter where you're at, you have to keep on going. You can't quit. You can't let it break you. You have to keep going on because life keeps going on and you have to keep going if you want to be the person you want to be.
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To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!
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Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
