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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We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
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Jämmerlich ist freilich jene praktische Philosophie der Franzosen und Engländer, von denen man meint, sie wüßten so gut, was der Mensch sei, unerachtet sie nicht darüber spekulierten, was er sein solle.
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I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.
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Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
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BULLLLLSHIT!!
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'Touch'
