Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
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'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
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In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact.
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
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El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.
