Octavio Paz Quotes
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Sometimes I draw blanks.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
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Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.
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Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.
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The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.
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I have looked on the hills of the stormy North,And the larch has hung his tassels forth.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side? Who says they have God with them? Is there any evil that they forbid themselves to do? 10
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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
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Thinking you're a genius is death.
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I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.
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Why should we consider defining intelligence as something global and as something that hasn't actually yet appeared on Earth? It may be useful for envisioning the future of our own civilization and any others that may be out there among the stars. It might give us something to strive for.
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Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
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I will never slide, never fall, never fail.
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If you are the amber mare
