Antonio Porchia Quotes
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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My philosophy is to be me.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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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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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.
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Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
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Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.
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When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.
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'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
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I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.
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New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.
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Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.
