Ariel Dorfman Quotes
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.
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Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.
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A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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Architects have always hoped to find a way to skip that stage between design and finished building.
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I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
