Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.
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Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.
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It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.
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If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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Las sombras: unas ocultan, otras descubren.
