Antonio Porchia Quotes
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
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We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded, and once we're mixing, that's when it occurs to me. Then you start rehearsing to play shows. I never concern myself about how we're going to pull it off live, because I know we'll figure out a way to do it.
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I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.
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I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.
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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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Quise alcanzar lo derecho por sendas derechas. Y así comencé a vivir equivocado.
