Yul Vazquez Quotes
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
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'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.
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It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
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We Houstonians, generally speaking, are hearty. The weather's too hot for us not to be.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
