Ernesto Cardenal Quotes
I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
