Asdrubal Cabrera Quotes
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.
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I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.
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When I had to work Shea Stadium for a Mets-Braves game – Atlanta pitcher John Rocker had recently given an interview in which he denounced New Yorkers of all Colors and preferences – I was assigned to a parking lot, where numerous drivers asked me for directions to various highways. When my first answer – “I have no idea” – seemed to invite denunciation and debate, I revised it to “Take the first left.” For all I know, those people are still lost in Queens.
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Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
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I always try to boost everyone's spirits.
