Alfredo Di Stefano Quotes
People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
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Art must not serve might.
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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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I just love a girl in a hat. It's really sexy.
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The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.
