Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
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ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
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I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.
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If you want learning, you must work for it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Cuando ya nada me quede, no pediré más nada.
