Antonio Porchia Quotes
Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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And I wrote to you, Laila. Volumes. -
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A disciple said to him, 'I am ready, in the quest for God, to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?' The Master calmly replied, 'One's beliefs about God.'
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
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Out of everyone in this world, I choose to love you.
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According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation of nature came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely instrumental faculty.
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?
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Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
