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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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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When they don't have your back on a show, it's the worst feeling ever. That energy trickles down to the cast and crew. You can feel when it's not gonna be a winner. But when you have the support of the network and the studio, it's a really good feeling.
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I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.
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I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
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Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
