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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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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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.
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People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.
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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.
