Antonio Porchia Quotes
Cuando lo superficial me cansa, me cansa tanto, que para descansar necesito un abismo.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.
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I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
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When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
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In the future, women will increasingly want nurturer-connectors, since part of what he will be nurturing is her ability to protect herself.
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
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When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
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Cuando lo superficial me cansa, me cansa tanto, que para descansar necesito un abismo.
