Umberto Eco Quotes
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.
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I like music, I listened to all rappers; people like Jeezy, Yo Gotti, T.I.
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But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
