Antonio Porchia Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care … TCB Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me.
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I do a lot of speaking engagements and sometimes I feel like I’m being paid to curse in front of people who haven’t heard it in a while.
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. (11 September 1941)
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This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
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Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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It's just an amazing feeling to know that I'm representing for every plus-size woman out there.
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We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
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Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.
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The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
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Algunos, adelantándose a todos, van ganando el desierto.
