Antonio Porchia Quotes
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
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I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.
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We petitioned to get access to film Suffragette at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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No hallé como quien ser, en ninguno. Y me quedé, así: como ninguno.
