Octavio Paz Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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My childhood was appalling.
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More inspiring and interesting teaching alone can make progress in education possible: for such teaching alone has power to produce greater self-activity, greater concentration of mind, greater desire to learn not only how to get a living, but how to live.
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It is really awkward to see myself on screen.
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I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
