Camilo Jose Cela Quotes
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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I remember a point in writing the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
