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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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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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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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is a bizarre frontier.
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As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.
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After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.
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For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.
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Casi siempre es el miedo de ser nosotros lo que nos lleva delante del espejo.
