Patricia Velasquez Quotes
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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History is not hatred.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
