Antonio Porchia Quotes
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not doing net settlement - just netting everything down, which means that everything has been turned into fungible numbers.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
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I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.
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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
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But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.
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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.
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I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.
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How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?
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Se puede no deber nada devolviendo la luz al sol.
