Carlos Alazraqui Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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We should all love animals.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.
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Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.
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If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.
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I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
