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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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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From the biological standpoint, people deprived of the human moment in their day-to-day business dealings, actually in all domains of their lives, are losing brain cells - literally - while those who cultivate the human moment are growing them.
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The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
