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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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.
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Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.
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If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.
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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.
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El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.