Alejandro Ghersi (Arca) Quotes
I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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I do a lot of ceramics.
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
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I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
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The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall.
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The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.
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Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
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The only shame is to have none.
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And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.
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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.
