Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
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We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. I didn't know that, nobody.. told me that. But when homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.
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Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
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I have feelings too - like 'My stomach hurts' or 'I'm going crazy!'
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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
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I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.
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I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
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Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
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This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
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You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.
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What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
