Umberto Eco Quotes
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
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I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
