Octavio Paz Quotes
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
