Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.
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Fallen myths can instill venom.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
