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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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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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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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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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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We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought...
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Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
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Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
