Umberto Eco Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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I track some long hours.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
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I don't explain-I explore.
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We live for books.
