"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of……" — Antonio Tabucchi
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
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Antonio Tabucchi
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37 Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi has 37 quotes on this site.
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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an…
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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in…
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I…
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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces…
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I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran…
— Eli Wallach
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a…
— Edward Abbey
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Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's…
— John Mica
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Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as…
— Unknown Author
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When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — (Obama) charged me with three…
— Charles Bolden
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When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation…
— Jimmy Carter
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I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous…
— Peter McWilliams
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The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer…
— Carlos Slim
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So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's…
— Edward Snowden
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Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically…
— E L Doctorow
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