Antonio Porchia Quotes
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
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I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.
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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.
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I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?
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I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.
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Tenemos un mundo para cada uno, pero no tenemos un mundo para todos.
