Hector Tobar Quotes

I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see them come to this absolutely incredible climax, and this fruition with the election of The Donald, it was just too much.

Hector Tobar

• Holocaust
• Parallels
• Democratic system
• European German history

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• I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

  

  Laura Linney
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• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
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• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
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• Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• If you do something, expect consequences.

  

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• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

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• Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Peace
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• The supposition is prevalent the world over that there would be no problems in production or service if only our production workers would do their jobs in the way that they were taught. Pleasant dreams. The workers are handicapped by the system, and the system belongs to the management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
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• To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.

  

  James Brown
  • Life
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• Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

  

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• Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?

  

  Janet Yellen
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• I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.

  

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• Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.

  

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• I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

  

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  • Photograph
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• Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis
  • Holocaust

• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  

  Eleanor Antin
  • Dark
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  • Annihilation

• There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
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• A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’ until you relate it to the body. The body is a component in design just as air and space are. Like line, form, and color, the body is a material to work with. It is one of the basic inspirations in creating form.

  

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  • Body

• I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see them come to this absolutely incredible climax, and this fruition with the election of The Donald, it was just too much.

  

  Hector Tobar
  • Holocaust
  • Parallels
  • Democratic system