Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
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Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.
