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Umberto Eco Quotes

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Book Care Survival Somebody He

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Music Better You Become Difficult

I've always had pop-star crushes. I had a huge crush on Ian Brown.

Always Crush Brown Crushes Had Huge

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

Loneliness Parents Isolation Thought

Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.

Stephanie McMahon

Art Ride Performance You Emotional

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Sturgill Simpson

History Time Progress Survive You

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

Life Sick Body Person Serious Said

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

Work Kindness Change Beautiful World

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

Failure Myself Become Real Aware

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Work Camera Musical Instrument Like

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Mother Baby Duck You Know Will

Anyone who lives in N.Y.C. will tell you that getting into a confrontation on a city street is a complete nightmare 100 percent of the time.

Time City You Street Will Tell

Our culture is the foundation for our company.

Culture Foundation Company Our

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