Octavio Paz Quotes
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I learned that one can always start again.
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
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Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
