Alvaro Enrigue Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
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Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.
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The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
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I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.
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Keystone would allow us to transport 700,000 barrels of oil a day from our northern neighbor Canada to refineries in the United States.
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I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.
