Alexis Arguello Quotes
I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
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Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
