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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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies and nebulae, and thinking they were not as wide as the distances between people. In the study Claudia sensed them, in the sparks and crackles on the screen. In the prison, Attia dreamt of them, She sat curled on the hard chair, Rix repacking his hidden pockets obsessively with coins and glass discs and hidden handkerchiefs. A single spark flickered deep in the coin Keiro spun and caught, spun and caught.
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For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.
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Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.
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The great thing about being on a series for nine years is you get to see the characters grow and change.
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I'm very honest about where I'm coming from.
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En mi silencio sólo falta mi voz.
