Camilo Jose Cela Quotes
I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
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In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.
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'It was an old passion,' he said. 'I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.''What is it like?' she asked.He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. 'An amputation,' he whispered.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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I'm not an ace at small talk.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
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I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
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I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
