Umberto Eco Quotes
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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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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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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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 get a ton of scam emails. But instead of deleting them, I decided to hit reply.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
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Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
