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.Octavio Paz
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power -
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
Karin Slaughter -
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.
Candice Olson -
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
Barbara Corcoran
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison -
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.
Jacob Epstein -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt -
I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand -
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
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.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
Dan Rather -
Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
Jack Warner -
I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
Jackie Stewart
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.
Jerry Falwell, Jr. -
You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.
D. B. Sweeney -
Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
Kara Walker -
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
Emil Theodor Kocher -
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.
Octavio Paz