Alberto Korda Quotes
There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls and I've given it to many people as a present. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I grew up in New York.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.
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There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls and I've given it to many people as a present. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)
