Antonio Porchia Quotes
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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We think of the division of labor as being outdated, but in fact it has reemerged. In the early ‘80s, a mother was 43 times more likely than the father to leave the workplace for family responsibilities; more recently, a mom is 135 times more likely to leave the workplace for family responsibilities.
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…English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.
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Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.
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I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
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Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.
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My muse is the digital world.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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On daughter Liza Minnelli I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
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When I have ceased to exist, I won’t ever have existed.
