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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'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
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Size doesn't equate to beauty. I don't understand why that's a thing. Well, I do, because the media has told us thin is beautiful. But is it?
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It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
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You know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises.
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To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
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Quise alcanzar lo derecho por sendas derechas. Y así comencé a vivir equivocado.
