Nicanor Parra (Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval) Quotes
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
J. P. Donleavy
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What makes us Americans is something more than just the circumstances of birth, what we look like, what God we worship, but rather it is a joyful spirit of citizenship. Citizenship demands participation and responsibility, and service to our country and to one another. And few embody that more than our men and women in uniform.
Barack Obama
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
J. William Fulbright
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From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
Arthur Wing Pinero
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Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous
Ambrose Bierce
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As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
Matt Bomer
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I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
Lynn Johnston
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I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology.
Geoff Johns
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.
Sigmund Freud
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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
Erroll Garner
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Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.
Nicanor Parra