Umberto Eco Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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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.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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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.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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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.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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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.
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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.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
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I wasn't the best UI programmer, but I know to use the interface and that stuff. It's definitely given me a leg up in terms of being able to talk to the people in the games industry.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
