Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.
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Si no has de cambiar de ruta, ¿por qué has de cambiar de guía?
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No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
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Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.
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So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.
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I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
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Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.
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A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
