Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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I'm a man of my word.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
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When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.
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I've always done things that were true to me.
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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.
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Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?
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A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.
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When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves...
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Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.
