Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
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Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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Cuando busco mi existencia, no la busco en mí.
