Juanes (Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez) Quotes
I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.
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I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
