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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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.
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If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
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I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see, what things they be; But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality!
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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.
