Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.
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In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.
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I don't want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: 'Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.' That, to me, isn't really who I am.
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El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.
