Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I am not a fan of books.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
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I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
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The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
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The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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El árbol está solo, la nube está sola. Todo está solo cuando yo estoy solo.
