Pedro Almodovar Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.
