Octavio Paz Quotes
In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Quotes to Explore
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
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I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.
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Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
