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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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.
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I do a lot of speaking engagements and sometimes I feel like I’m being paid to curse in front of people who haven’t heard it in a while.
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Todo lo que llevo atado en mí, se halla suelto, en cualquier parte.
