Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
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When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.
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Success, or the lack of it, has a way to make you realise what your boundaries are.
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Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.
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A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
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Viéndome, me pregunto: ¿qué pretenden verse los demás?
