María Concepción Balboa Buika (Concha Buika) Quotes
I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I've been very happy with the results of this decision. I feel that I get lots of interaction and loyal support. So I'm grateful for my Twitter and Facebook followers every day.
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I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
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If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
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I wish I could separate trauma from politics, but as long as we continue to live in denial and treat only trauma while ignoring its origins, we are bound to fail. In today's world your ZIP code, even more than your genetic code, determines whether you will lead a safe and healthy life. People's income, family structure, housing, employment, and educational opportunities not only affect their risk of developing traumatic stress but also their access to effective help to address it. Poverty, unemployment, inferior schools, social isolation, widespread availability of guns, and substandard housing all are breeding grounds for trauma. Trauma breeds further trauma; hurt people hurt other people.
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It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.
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I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.
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When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.
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I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.
