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 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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I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.
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I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.
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It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
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The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.
