Luis Fonsi (Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero) Quotes
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.
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The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.
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In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.
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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
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You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.
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With gentle hand, as seeming oft to pause,The purple curtains of the morn she draws.
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Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
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I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.
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People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.
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I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.
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The scriptures teach us the ways of the Lord. They answer questions about how to live today. They bring a light and a spirit into our lives that we can get in no other way.
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Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
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Reflect upon your present blessings.
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I've learned and grown as a songwriter.
