Octavio Paz Quotes
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.Octavio Paz
Quotes to Explore
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
Ferran Adria -
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
M. Night Shyamalan -
Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
Kate Winslet -
The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
Edmund Phelps -
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman -
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
Gabby Douglas -
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
Jack Ma -
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
Yochai Benkler -
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
Pat Summitt -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
M.I.A.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
Patrick Demarchelier -
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso -
I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
Faye Marsay -
The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
Rachel Dratch -
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash -
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
Mary Karr -
At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant.
Marshall McLuhan -
Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.
Meg Tilly -
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
Matt Prokop -
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
Octavio Paz