Juan Goytisolo Quotes
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.Juan Goytisolo
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
J. Michael Straczynski -
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. Forster -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
Taylor Swift -
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant -
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale -
In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
Pat Buchanan -
I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
Larry David
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
Larry Kramer -
I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.
Felicia Day -
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
Kristina McMorris -
My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
Pitbull
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I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.
Elizabeth Berg -
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
Yusuf Hamied -
Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
I'm one of those people where, if I get a piece of advice from someone I look up to and respect, I'll really listen to it.
Kelly Marie Tran -
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
Andrew Marr -
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
Juan Goytisolo