Antonio Porchia Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
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We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
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To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
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Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.
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I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.
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When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
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Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
