Rafael dos Anjos Quotes
I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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I would rather have a gay child. If you have a gay son, you know he's not gonna be shooting up his high school. That would get in the way of yearbook.
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A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
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I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
