Antonio Porchia Quotes
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.
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I feel good not just physically but as a person because I know I accomplished my goal, which everybody said I couldn't do in Venezuela.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
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The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
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When I started my career, I saw that everybody was using Twitter.
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Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.
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You know more than you think you do.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.
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I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.
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The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.
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It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.
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You can't promise to win a game, but you can want to win a game.
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The first quality to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.
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Casi siempre es el miedo de ser nosotros lo que nos lleva delante del espejo.