Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.
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It could be anybody abusing drugs. This seminar brought to light all the other testing kits available to the Sheriff's Department.
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Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.
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As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.
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It's been incredibly frustrating. The US government gave permission for the doctors to live in America, in freedom.
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Todo es como los ríos, obra de las pendientes.
