Antonio Machado Quotes

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

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• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• You cannot do only one thing.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • You
  • Only
  • One Thing

• The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Driving
  • Gun
  • Season

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Win

• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Finding
  • West

• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
  • Company
  • Skills

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Future

• A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Horse

• I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Man
  • Human
  • Essence