Octavio Paz Quotes

As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

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• I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • School
  • War

• I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Talk

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Like
  • Never
  • Being

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Worst

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Play
  • Like
  • Paradox

• I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Enjoy

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• 'Sounds to me as if you want journalists,' Timberlane said.'No, sir, we require steady men with integrity. This is not a scoop, it’s a way of life.'

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Life
  • Men
  • Integrity

• Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • Me
  • Environment

• In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Important
  • Victory
  • Productivity

• As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Always
  • Almost