Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.Augusto Roa Bastos
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim -
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah -
I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
Tamra Davis -
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
Daisy Ridley -
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
Jack Nicklaus -
Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
Laura Ingraham -
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston -
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
Felicia Day -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
Oliver Stone -
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Ian Lustick -
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
Benedict Cumberbatch -
Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because 'many hands make light work.' The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.
David Lange -
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Craig Venter -
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
Barack Obama -
There is no virtue they should be excited to, nor fault they should be kept from, which I do not think they may be convinced of; but it must be by such reasons as their age and understandings are capable of, and those propos'd always in very few and plain words.
John Locke Nazareth -
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos