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Umberto Eco Quotes

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Black Bad Feelings White Blood

I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Culture Me Impossible Think Someone

I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present.

Jesse Kellerman

Work Good Live Time Art New York

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.

Andrew Motion

Wife Getting Older Roots Doing Back

Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.

John Lewis

Shoes Walk People Saying Sometimes

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

Solomon Ortiz

Friends More Mean Need Got Give

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

Steven Spielberg

Choices Never Question Director May

One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.

Romy Schneider

Day Rich Moments Young Marvelous

For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

Judy Greer

Family Time Think Thought Long

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

Deborah Kass

People Self Strategy Price Now Own

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Christopher Morley

Words Never Slump Which Commodity

The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Moon Game Classic First Sailor Got

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Thomas Clarkson

Men Chance Principles Same Master