Umberto Eco Quotes
It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.
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It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
