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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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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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 would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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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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Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.
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The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.
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I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.
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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.
