Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
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'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.
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But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
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My feet are always on the ground. My family and friends make sure I stay there.
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For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled that part of the Land of Oz had forbidden any other Witch to exist in her dominions. So Tip's guardian, however much she might aspire to working magic, realized it was unlawful to be more than a Sorceress, or at most a Wizardess.
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The best Six Sigma projects begin not inside the business but outside it, focused on answering the question-how can we make the customer more competitive? What is critical to the customer’s success?... One thing we have discovered with certainty is that anything we do that makes the customer more successful inevitably results in a financial return for us.
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But, ultimately, I don't have very cast iron opinions on black music other than black modern music which I detest. I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful. I hate all those records in the Top 40 - Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston. I think they're vile in the extreme. In essence this music doesn't say anything whatsoever.
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French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
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I'm obsessed with lip stuff. I have to have stuff on my lips at all times.
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As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.
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Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.
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Mi yo ha ido alejándose de mí. Hoy es mi más lejano tú.
