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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Take all the time you need It's a lovely night If you decide to come You're gonna do it right.
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.
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I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.
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It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.
