Alejo Carpentier Quotes
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
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Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
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It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.
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For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.
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Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.
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I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
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I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: 'take off your pants'; 'dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep'; etc.
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Our marriage has survived because we do things we love.
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God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
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Computer scientists have been working on finding this balance for more than fifty years. They even have a name for it: the explore/exploit tradeoff.
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I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
