Antonio Porchia Quotes

Para poder alcanzar ciertas alturas, no las bajo: las levanto más.

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• When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Find
  • Get

• I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Old
  • Some
  • Videos

• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Done
  • Day
  • Sometimes

• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Long
  • Black
  • Pain

• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reputation
  • Potential

• I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Cinema

• I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Different
  • Paint

• The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Guy
  • House
  • Years

• It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Great

• People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Cold
  • Frozen

• It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Free

• Those who look for contradictions will be amply satisfied. The profession of a performer is full of paradoxes, and he has to learn to live with them. He has to forget himself and control himself; he has to observe the composer's wishes to the letter and create the music on the spot; he has to be part of the music market and yet retain his integrity.

  

  Alfred Brendel
  • Music
  • Live
  • Control

• I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey.

  

  SZA
  • Worry
  • Journey

• I was really disappointed with the lack of respect from the UFC towards Brazilian athletes.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Respect

• Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • War
  • Pretty
  • Library

• Para poder alcanzar ciertas alturas, no las bajo: las levanto más.

  

  Antonio Porchia