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 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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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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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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That phrase, 'loss of innocence,' has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.
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I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
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If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
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Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.
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El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.
