Luis Barragan Quotes
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
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I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.
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Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
