Antonio Porchia Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism.
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I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.
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I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.
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A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
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People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.
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I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
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As far as creating my own theme park, it would probably just have to do with things I like, like my dog and other people's dogs, and lots of dogs and cats.
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Hablo pensando que no debiera hablar: así hablo.
