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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Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
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Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
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Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.
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Gentle to others, to himself severe.
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I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.
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Tenemos un mundo para cada uno, pero no tenemos un mundo para todos.
