Antonio Porchia Quotes
La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
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'Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God,' I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
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Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
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On 'Heaven Beside You'. **Interview with Request Magazine, February 1996.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now.
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Il ne savait rien, ne voulait rien savoir, en quoi il se conformait à son génie, dont il ne surchargeait point l’aimable petitesse, et son heureux instinct lui conseillait de comprendre peu plutôt que de comprendre mal.
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I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
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Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
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All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.
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Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
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A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.
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La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,
