Manuel Puig Quotes
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Manuel Puig
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
Pastor Maldonado
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
Olivia Thirlby
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I think I can change the game.
Venus Williams
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
Wadah Khanfar
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I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
Laura Vandervoort
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It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.
Elvis Costello
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver
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Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
Chubby Checker
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They would give us these helicopter rides, and every time we'd get on, the drivers would say 'now do you want to ride, or do you want to rrrride? On the helicopter! I'd be like 'I want the ride... the first one... the boring one... the ride. I don't want the 'rrrride'... I want the ride!
Kathy Griffin
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Manuel Puig