Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Quotes
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Excellence always sells.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
