Paco de Lucía (Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gomes) Quotes
I love the sea. Swimming, fishing, going out in my boat - that gives me tranquility. Nowadays, I love to read as well. Historical fiction is what I discovered for myself.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
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Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.
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I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.
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I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.
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I love the sea. Swimming, fishing, going out in my boat - that gives me tranquility. Nowadays, I love to read as well. Historical fiction is what I discovered for myself.
