Octavio Paz Quotes
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.
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People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.
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Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
