Antonio Porchia Quotes
Hombres y cosas, suben, bajan, se alejan, se acercan. Todo es una comedia de distancias.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.
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A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can’t buy him and the country does not have enough money to ‘buy’ him.
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
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A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.
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Hombres y cosas, suben, bajan, se alejan, se acercan. Todo es una comedia de distancias.
