Octavio Paz Quotes
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
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You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.
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My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
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The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
