Maria Conchita Alonso Quotes
Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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I don't like possessions.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
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If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?
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Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
