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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I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
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Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.
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Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.
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In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
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Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
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Distances did nothing. It’s all here.
