Isabel Vargas Lizano (Chavela Vargas) Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.
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How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy Whitfield, which made everything very difficult and pushed back.
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I had already been one of the uncool students in my class and had few friends. But once you could see me on the TV, I was even more uncool.
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Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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When you like something, you should do it all night long.
