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Umberto Eco Quotes

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: italian
Birth: January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

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Dreams Hero Mistake Real Coward He

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

Never Sound Sing Just Like Happened

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

Treat Person Movies Fair Pretty Who

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Stephen Hawking

Life Success Succeed You Difficult

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Failure Mistakes Mistake Learn Save

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

First Different Only Number Sounds

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.

Romesh Gunesekera

Growing Up Cold Late New Growing Up

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Leadership Responsibility Excuses

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

Good Yourself Practice People Enough

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Love Travel Land Holy Holy Land

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

Radio Texture Voices Solid Even

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Life Great My Life Study Without

Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.

Bozoma Saint John

Women Men Society Gender Long Said

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