Carlos Barrios Quotes
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
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Free speech not only lives, it rocks!
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At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.
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We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.
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I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.
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Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.
