Astor Piazzolla Quotes
To give pleasure to the old man, I clumsily tried to learn, and I was dreadfully bad.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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I love twins stories.
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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Every film is hard to fund.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.
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You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.
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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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To give pleasure to the old man, I clumsily tried to learn, and I was dreadfully bad.
