Octavio Paz Quotes
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
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As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
