Umberto Eco Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
Lance Loud -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
Ingrid Newkirk -
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Basmah bint Saud -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
Sam Wyly -
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
Ted Rall -
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett -
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton -
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
Daniel Bryan -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara -
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. Jacobs -
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
Harold Prince -
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
Gary Herbert -
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand -
I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
Jessica Alba -
I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'
Drew Barrymore -
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
Bill Gates -
Our life is full of empty space.
Umberto Eco