Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes
Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I love Costco.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois.
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When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too. Of course a poor man quits being poor when he dies, but that is not a thing to lament.
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
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Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.
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Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.
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Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
