Antonio Porchia Quotes
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We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?
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I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.
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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
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Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.
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I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
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I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.
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I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.
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I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.
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Un corazón grande se llena con muy poco.
