Alvaro Enrigue Quotes
In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
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That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.
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All advertising advertises advertising – no ad has its meaning alone. (p. 145)
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I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
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The logic of the Greeks prevents them having the idea at all and it is to the Indian cultures that we must look to find thinkers who are comfortable with the idea that Nothing might be something.
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In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
