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Umberto Eco Quotes

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Hope Religion Go Hard Without

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

Work Family Love Space People Media

It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.

Best Creative People Process Kind

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

American Result Entertainment Used

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

Alone Mind Youth You Go Grass

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

Leadership Caring Think Remember Way

Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There's so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.

Anjelah Johnson

Love Healing People Process Laugh

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Architecture Words Reading Enough

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Success You Vanity More Need Any

As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

Facts Enough You Find Go Try

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson

Challenge Perspective Moving Forward

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Mary Harris Jones

Railroad Strike Golden Farmers West

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

Culture Experience Think Feel Living

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