"An idea you have might not be original.……" — Umberto Eco
"An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original."
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
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More Creating Quotes
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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Research is creating new knowledge.
— Neil Armstrong
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Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
— Joe Baca
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
— Christian Bale
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I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films…
— Drew Barrymore
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which…
— Warren G. Bennis
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson
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Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of…
— Jello Biafra
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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
— Brad Bird
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And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't…
— Michael Bloomberg
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
— Niels Bohr
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Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.
— Elayne Boosler
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