Nicanor Parra (Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval) Quotes
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
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I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
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Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.
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I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.
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I don't even have a type! I don't have a physical type. I have an emotional type.
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A lot of times, people are reserved or maybe scared of testing what your body is capable of. I'm not.
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Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
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It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
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There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.
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I would love to have children, as I am such a mommy. I have always been like that.
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There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.
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I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am not a legend, but I want to be one. I want to be known as an achiever. There is so much more that I can do.
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Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now.
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Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
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If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district that Obey won by just 20 points against an unknown, underfunded challenger in the Democratic landslide of 2008. It means there is not a single Democrat in the country who is safe.
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I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.
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Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!
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The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
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When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
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Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free, Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.
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In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
