Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
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In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
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I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
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Its designers drew inspiration from three related traditions: the architecture of the Mughals' central Asian homeland; the buildings erected by earlier Muslim rulers of India, especially in the Delhi region; and the much older architectural expertise of India itself.
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Did you know that when a baby poops its diaper, you're not supposed to hit him with a rolled up newspaper?
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I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.
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Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do. (Australia, 2002).
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It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
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When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.
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To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
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They're getting a ton of publicity in St. Louis. They have not exceeded my expectations, because my expectations were very high. We knew they could come in and give us quality minutes.
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A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
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I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.
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It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.
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A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.
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Herir al corazón es crearlo.
