Carlos P. Romulo (Carlos Peña Rómulo) Quotes
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.
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I just don't stop working.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
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Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,And men talk only to conceal the mind.
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Lonestar Where are you out tonight? This feeling I'm trying to fight It's dark and I think that I would give anything For you to shine down on me
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In China, there is a long history of the government not revealing information, so it’s difficult for the Chinese people to ever know the truth. It is vital that we try to bring that truth to life.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
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In a situation of unequal power, a subordinate group has to focus on survival. It becomes very important for the subordinates to become highly attuned to the dominants as a way of protecting themselves from them.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
