Octavio Paz Quotes
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.Octavio Paz
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Sally Hawkins -
I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
Olivia Newton-John -
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus -
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
Edmonia Lewis -
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
Quincy Jones -
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
Rachel Cusk
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
Laura Moser -
I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
Carly Fiorina -
I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
Felicity Kendal -
I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
Cara Castronuova -
I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine -
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
Patrick deWitt -
Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
Carly Fiorina -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu -
Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
Rachel Johnson
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I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
Zach Braff -
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson -
In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
Larry Wilmore -
The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
Jack Keane -
People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
Dakota Fanning -
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz