Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.
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Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
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In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.
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My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.
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The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.
