Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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I'm always late.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
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I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
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One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.
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When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
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I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
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It doesn't matter to me who's the most powerful or profitable country in the world. All countries want to be prosperous. What's happening is a zero-sum game between China and the U.S., where their gain is our loss.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
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Te quireo como eres, pero no me digas cómo eres.
