Antonio Machado Quotes

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Antonio Machado

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• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Work
  • Game
  • Style

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Accent
  • Classes

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Work
  • May
  • Song

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Just
  • Everyone

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Plants
  • Gardening

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• When you remove just some of the barriers, people do what people do: help their families.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • People
  • Help

• I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

  

  Louis Aragon
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Work

• You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

  

  John Poindexter
  • Failures
  • Pushing
  • Objectives

• No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Light
  • Afflictions