Oscar Hijuelos Quotes
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
