Umberto Eco Quotes
Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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I think that because I struggled and did get very bullied, that definitely made me learn how to be funny and let things roll off and be able to laugh, and I think that has definitely helped me when it comes to being in the public eye with 'Gay of Thrones' and 'Queer Eye.'
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
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Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.
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Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
