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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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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Spring, you are a pinking shears: you cut fresh edges on the world.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
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We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.
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Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.
