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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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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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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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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Right when I was I was diagnosed my husband and I were actively trying for a family, which is heartbreaking for us both.
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Las sombras: unas ocultan, otras descubren.
