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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What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
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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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I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.
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It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.
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By all means, then, let us have psalms and days of dedication anew to the old causes
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I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
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We rule out raising taxes this year.
