Alexis Arguello Quotes
I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell.
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The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
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I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.
