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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Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
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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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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!
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It's not an act, it's just my way.
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As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
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The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
