Umberto Eco Quotes
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what I make. It's sort of a pot roast, all my films.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
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I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.
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Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people who are shallow and report only today's exciting story, to be followed by tomorrow's exciting story, to have any sense of depth or any sense of background?
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
