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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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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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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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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Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!
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Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?
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To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.
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When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.
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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.
