Paco Ignacio Taibo II Quotes
The only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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I'm curvy.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.
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What's up?' he said, like the church was always burning down and I always called him on a school night, telling him to come over after dark and bring a shovel.
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I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it's how many others you have helped along the way.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?
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The only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.
