Umberto Eco Quotes
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
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I submit to you that even today, as tough as things seem, it is much better to be us than them, ... Why do I say this? First, they have no plan. Second, if they ever announce one it will be consistent with their philosophy of bigger and bigger government and higher and higher taxes.
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
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They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
