Umberto Eco Quotes
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
Quotes to Explore
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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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 remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.
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You are the most powerful force in your life.
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I began to understand the fundamental problem of the councils, who were required to collaborate with Germans. They had no choice - no choice at all. The role of 'collaborator' is completely false to describe them and define their attitude.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
