Umberto Eco Quotes

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.

Umberto Eco

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• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Think
  • Moral
  • Animals

• I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Different
  • Long
  • Home

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Me
  • Holocaust
  • Jews

• Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Up
  • Habit
  • Start

• The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Authenticity

• I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Place
  • Conscience

• Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Day

• I can't die but once.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Die
  • Once

• Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Important
  • Children

• Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Beat

• How easy for those who do not bulgeTo not overindulge!

  

  Ogden Nash

• Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Inspiration
  • Polite
  • Hits

• It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Singing
  • Listening

• The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Water

• Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

  

  Bill Joy
  • Good

• There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Lost
  • Tears
  • Paradise

• The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s.

  

  Doug Jones
  • World

• We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

  

  Alex Scarrow
  • Born
  • Dead
  • Faster

• Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Friend
  • Powerful

• In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.

  

  Umberto Eco