Carlos Gavito (Carlos Eduardo Gavito) Quotes
When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.
Quotes to Explore
-
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
-
The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
-
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-
Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
-
When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
-
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
-
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
-
In Colombia, we have a lot of passion.
-
Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
-
I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
-
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
-
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.
-
I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.
-
[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.
-
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
-
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade.
-
You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.
-
I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.
-
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
-
When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.
