Octavio Paz Quotes
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
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Let's create, not destroy. Let's believe and not doubt.
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I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
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The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
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I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
