Ernesto Illy Quotes
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
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If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards.
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There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
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The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.
