Enrique Penalosa Quotes
God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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La flor que tienes en tus manos ha nacido hoy y ya tiene tu edad.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.
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God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.
