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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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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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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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
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It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
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Every human being is unique and reacts differently to different food items. A diet that works for you may not necessarily work for your friend.
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The plain truth is, 'Fruitvale Station' was made totally outside the Hollywood studio system, and every ounce of the picture feels authentic. The lives of the people involved in the movie will never be the same.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
