Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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Fashion anticipates.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
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It takes a long time to become young.
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Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
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The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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When we consider carefully what many of our so-called humanists stand for, we find that they are not humanists but humanitarians.
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Fate will not be confined by paragraphs.
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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
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No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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Cuando rompo algunas de las cadenas que me encadenan, siento que me disminuyo.
