Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
Vanessa Paradis
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
Verite
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
Ed Gillespie
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
Sam Ewing
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Caitlyn Jenner
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Eckhart Tolle
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
Calista Flockhart
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
Manu Bennett
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.
Brian Sutton-Smith
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
Bebe Rexha
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.
Elvis Duran
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Portugal is like Ziggy Stardust. The period is there, so you know that it's not the country, it's Portugal. The 'Man' states, 'He's the man.'
John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
Antonio Tabucchi