Wences Casares (Wenceslao Casares) Quotes
In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought the Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy.
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No doubt his grandmother and his great-grandfather had hoped to empower a senator, enrich a great art collection or encourage a dazzling marriage, but in the end they had mainly subsidized idleness, drunkenness, treachery and divorce.
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I just feel so sexy when I'm salsa dancing and wearing the salsa clothes. I love dancing, and the salsa is just so sexy.
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I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
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It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.
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When you think positive, good things happen.
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As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
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I'm very lucky, coming from a great school.
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I love white T-shirts as much as I love black. I often wear total black. It's my favourite.
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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.
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Critical evaluation was transformed into understanding, and criticism became not an act of judgment but of comprehension.
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There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.
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It can be done, but you have to make it happen.
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In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
