María Concepción Balboa Buika (Concha Buika) Quotes
It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.
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It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.
