Tomás Borge Quotes

The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

Tomás Borge

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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

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• I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

  

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• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

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• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

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• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

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• I love trying new restaurants.

  

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• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

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• If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

  

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• The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

  

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• I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.

  

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• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

  

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• In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

  

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• Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

  

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• I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

  

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• I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

  

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• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  

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• Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

  

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• People feel that in this industry friendships are not for real, but that's not true. Otherwise, what is the point of being friends?

  

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• To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

  

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• I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

  

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• There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Life
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• The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

  

  Tomás Borge
  • Life
  • World
  • Healthy