Antonio Porchia Quotes
A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
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Good music makes you feel something.
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The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.
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All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
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When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.
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All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
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Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
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A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.
