Umberto Eco Quotes
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
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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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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
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There's always something that's smoldering somewhereI know it don't make a difference to you But oh! It sure made a difference to me You'll see me off in the distance, I hope At the other end At the other end of the telescope.
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As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
