Ernesto Cardenal Quotes
We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.
Quotes to Explore
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Writers are so important.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
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I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
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Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
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I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
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Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
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I have never been graceful, never been elegant.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.
