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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The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.
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I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.
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I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.
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The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
