Antonio Porchia Quotes
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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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For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
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Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is
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I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.
