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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I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
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Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.
