Luis de Guindos Quotes
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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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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
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I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.
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Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
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The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
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I'm an only child.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.
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To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
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We rule out raising taxes this year.
