Antonio Porchia Quotes
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
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I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
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When my friends in college had crushes, I used to think something is wrong with them. I just chill out.
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Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.
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Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
