Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
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The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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There is a paradox. In retaining this integrity, the writer sometimes must risk both the state's indictment of treason, and the liberation forces' complaint of lack of blind commitment.
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While it is beyond our comprehension that eternity should meet us in time, yet it is true because in Jesus Christ eternity has become time.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
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My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.
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I don't have money. Monsanto has money.
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All instruments sound fantastic in a church.
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I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.
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Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.
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We've had a century in which we've allowed some industries to basically pollute the air, pollute the water, pollute the ground, pollute the rivers, and we've been trying sporadically to clean air acts and ways of regulating them. But we now are sitting in a world that's filled with all sorts of materials that we don't really know the impact of. It's not like they're necessarily all poisonous but it's odd to put all these materials into our environment and watch.
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I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.
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Voy perdiendo el deseo de lo que busco, buscando lo que deseo.
