Antonio Porchia Quotes
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
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High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
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I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.
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Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only thing that she had to give to the world, and she must live in the way that suited them best.
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I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.