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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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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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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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.
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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.
