Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos Quotes
Wherever there is Cuban music there will be the aura of the Buena Vista Social Club, for whom the farewell tour is also the end of an era. It’s something that makes you sad, to a certain point, for those of us who have seen this project grow.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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I'm still me even after all that's happened.
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Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
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I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
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“What?" "That's sweet." I am sweet. My heart flip-flops and I bite my lip a little bit. Sweet as in a lollipop, or sweet as in a girl you wold like to kiss passionately in the stacks? That's the question.
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Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.
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Wherever there is Cuban music there will be the aura of the Buena Vista Social Club, for whom the farewell tour is also the end of an era. It’s something that makes you sad, to a certain point, for those of us who have seen this project grow.
