Antonio Porchia Quotes
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
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The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
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That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
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Todo lo que llevo atado en mí, se halla suelto, en cualquier parte.
