Antonio Porchia Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.
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I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
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The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined.
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One man alone is too much for one man alone.
