Pablo Neruda Quotes
There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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I have a love for boxing.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.
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A sexy shoe is one that men like.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
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My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
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The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
