Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.
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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
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I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
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I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
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I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
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The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
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There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.
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I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.
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Hablo pensando que no debiera hablar: así hablo.
