Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.
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It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
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As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.
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Call me irresponsibleYes, I'm unreliableBut it's undeniably trueThat I'm irresponsibly mad for you.
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We need to hack up the person responsible for this bad connection....hack him up in front of his children. We need to cut off his face and wear it and go on a really tightly budgeted shopping spree in stores that don't exist yet.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.
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The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.
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My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
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Más llanto que llorar es ver llorar.
