Octavio Paz Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I still have a young attitude.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected?The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
