Pablo Neruda Quotes
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
