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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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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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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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Collecting is more than just buying objects.
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My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.
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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
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The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.
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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.
