Antonio Porchia Quotes
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
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If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade. My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
