Octavio Paz Quotes
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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When I really need it, talking is the best way to deal with emotional pain.
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It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.
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The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.
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Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
