Hector Tobar Quotes
Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
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One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
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Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
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I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.
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I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
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Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
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Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
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I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.
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Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
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A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.
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Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
