Octavio Paz Quotes
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
