Pablo Neruda Quotes
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...
