Raul Castro Quotes
As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.
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I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
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France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
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As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.
