Alfonso A. Ossorio Quotes
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
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It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
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When a man declares: 'There are no blacks and whites in morality' he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: 'I am unwilling to be wholly good-and please don't regard me as wholly evil!'
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Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.
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We are approaching a more fluid state. I have talked about cultural boiling. The idea of the phase-transition period which, in fractal mathematics, is the chaotic flux between one state and another. …Culturally, and as a species, we are approaching a phase-transition. I don’t know quite what that means, on a human level.
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The primary goal for me in doing a superhero series is to make it new-reader-friendly, so it might not be front-loaded with all this history, but you can be sure it will show up!
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I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan, actually, we could rethink things - maybe we need to think more about job-training programs, earned income tax credit, adjust the tax code.
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There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.
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I am a Libra so I have to balance things.
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Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
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As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
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Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.
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We believe that the future for content-creators such as ourselves lies in being able to source project money from an audience and deliver on those projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.
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Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
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We have a culture of political corruption in Jefferson City. We have corrupt politicians, well-paid lobbyists and special-interest insiders taking the state in the wrong direction.
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A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
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There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
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The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
