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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There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.
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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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If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
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It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
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We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.
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'Touch'
