Antonio Porchia Quotes
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
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I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.
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From a professional standpoint, our transformation of the labor landscape at scale through technology with Levo is the highest and best direction of my energy.
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If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.
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Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.
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She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. 'Is this as important as I think it is?''Almost certainly much more so.''Oh,' she said, 'fuck.'
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Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
