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Umberto Eco Quotes

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Today Discipline Meet Outside Own

You should listen to a lot of different music.

Music You Listen Different Should

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth Mind Know Unknown See Clearly

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Age Beautiful Depression World More

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.

Cooking Eating You Chicken Worst

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

Food Think Up Comforting Something

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Art Words Poetry Happy World Person

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Townsend Harris

Change You Desire Settle Matter She

I'm the most unlikely person when it comes to fashion. I don't really have much sense of it.

Fashion Person Sense Most Much

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

Welcome People Green America Country

If I want any shot at getting on the floor, I gotta know what I'm doing defensively.

Doing Know Want Floor Shot Getting

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

Fly Airplane My Own Own Learned Had

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

Love Would Direct Really Feature

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