Umberto Eco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business.
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If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.
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If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
