Umberto Eco Quotes

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.

Joe Torre

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I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

Melanie Rawn

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When you have Julio Iglesias on a song, I think that's golden.

Romeo Santos

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America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.

Mike Barnicle

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Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off.

Lou Doillon

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It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.

Louis D. Brandeis

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For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I'm a walking contradiction.

Jason Momoa

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The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

Dick Wolf

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There are always going to be detractors who will say I don't look like I'll be able to hang with Brock Lesnar. But Brock's a freak of nature, and I don't know anybody who looks like they can 'hang' with Brock Lesnar. But anyone can be choked out in seven seconds.

CM Punk

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The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I've got it.

Cole Swindell

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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Aretha Franklin

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