Umberto Eco Quotes

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

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• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Two

• I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Chocolate
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • You
  • Yourself

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Oil
  • Ancient

• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Problem
  • Understanding
  • Easy

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• Being a bad guy is fun for me.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Guy

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• If you just stay with it and take it scene by scene, episode by episode, all of the questions that I have, as an actor, tend to answer themselves.

  

  Amanda Warren

• Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

  

  Kesha
  • Friends

• For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Military

• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

  

  Umberto Eco
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