Isco (Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez) Quotes
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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I guess music is very global.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Any man will follow any feminine looking thing down any dark alley; I've always wanted to see a man beaten to a shit bloody pulp with a high-heeled shoe stuffed up his mouth, sort of the pig with the apple; it would be good to put him on a serving plate but you'd need good silver.
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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.
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Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
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Money: power at its most liquid.
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
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Max Planck was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, because during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood general relativity, he would have gone to bed the way I did.
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Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.
