Quotes 141 till 159 of 159.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726) -
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
De correcties 263 -
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
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When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
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When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out.
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Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
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You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 180 -
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
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