Umberto Eco Quotes
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.
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It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.
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There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
