Octavio Paz Quotes
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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There are no great scripts - just great films.
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I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
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Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
