Octavio Paz Quotes
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.
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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
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In defense of the right to...marry whom we please - we might quote some of the basic principles of our government and suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.
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The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.
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I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.
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'Touch'
