Umberto Eco Quotes
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
Umberto Eco
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
Dana Rohrabacher
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
E. Stanley Jones
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
Karin Slaughter
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
Dan Hill
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
Hans Jonas
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
Ted Cruz
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
Ira Sachs
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Gayle Forman
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
Qandeel Baloch
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
Maggie Cheung
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
Daniel Gilbert
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
Nadia Comaneci
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
Daniel Espinosa
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey
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One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
Piper Laurie
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It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.
M. M. Mangasarian
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My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.
Judy Blume
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
Umberto Eco
