Tabare Vazquez Quotes
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I like to discover new things.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
