Joe Garcia Quotes
The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.
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To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
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Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.
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The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.
