Edgar Ramirez Quotes
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
