Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.
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We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
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The human condition: lost in thought.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.
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You have to practice until you die.
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I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
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En mi silencio sólo falta mi voz.
