Umberto Eco Quotes
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.Umberto Eco
Quotes to Explore
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
Eddie Murphy -
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang -
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
Taylor Dayne -
I owe it all to Jesus.
Aaron Neville -
I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
Hans Rosling -
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
Nathan Fillion
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth -
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey -
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett -
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
Wang Jianlin -
There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
Orlando Brown
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
Ralph Marston -
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
Samantha Stosur -
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt -
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
Walter Lang -
I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
Carlene Carter -
School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
Manal al-Sharif -
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
Georg Brandes -
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
Adrian Rogers -
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.
William A. Dembski -
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
Umberto Eco