Subcomandante Marcos (Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente) Quotes
In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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After the Visakhapatnam and Araku shoot, I am leaving for Ahmedabad and Bangalore, followed by Hyderabad. This is the time I can work hard, so I never feel the pressure, as I am a workaholic.
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After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
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Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
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It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, 'What should I write at the age of sixty-four,' but never, 'What should I write in 1940.'
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
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A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. … Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.
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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.
