Ivan Illich Quotes
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
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As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.
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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
