Umberto Eco Quotes
We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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I don't have a philosophy of caricature. I'm not even sure I am a caricaturist, in the strictest sense of the word - I don't really exaggerate much. For a while, recently, I was thinking of attempting a reverse-caricature of Donald Trump; he certainly already appears to be a caricature of himself. I wondered about de-caricaturizing him, scaling back his whole face and hair and visual excess, and attempting to shed light on him that way.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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You have to support people who want to do weird, different, fun stuff. Otherwise, it'll get very homogenous.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
