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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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
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How easy for those who do not bulgeTo not overindulge!
Ogden Nash
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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
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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
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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
Art Buchwald
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Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.
Charles Studd
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My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
Chris Abani
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As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'
Bonnie Langford
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
Walter Isaacson
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
George Eliot
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So may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.
William Shakespeare
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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.
Umberto Eco