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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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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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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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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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
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I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.
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I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
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A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
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I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'
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I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.
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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.
