Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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When I say nothing, I say everything.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
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We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.
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If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
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Distances did nothing. It’s all here.
