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Umberto Eco Quotes

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Passion People Way Some People Same

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Beautiful Men Woman Value People

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listening Voice You Listen Own Your

I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.'

John C. McGinley

Good Great Me Feel Good Celebrate

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

People Find Wonder Sometimes Seek

You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.

Good Character Job Thinking Talking

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Me Camera Reason Everything Tool

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

Melanie Laurent

Love Childhood Parents Me Confident

Shoes are important, of course. I love my Lanvin sneakers - they go with a lot of things. And then I think a nice bag is great, so you carry your computer or whatever else in style. I've been carrying a Tom Ford backpack lately.

Love Great Style Shoes Think Bag

Uber is a global business. We don't think just in terms of the U.S.

Travis Kalanick

Business Think Uber Global Just

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

Powerful Seen Web Most Most Powerful

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

Power Think Pulling Jim Jim Carrey

Anytime you get to go up against guys that have done well in this league, who have dominated in this league, you have got to rise to the challenge.

Challenge You Rise Go Done Up

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