Ruben Blades Quotes

I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street.

Ruben Blades

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DoingKindStreetConnectedNever

We've reinvented ourselves many, many, many times.

John L. Flannery

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There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

John Hillcoat

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Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

Merv Griffin

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I do mascara, I do lipstick, I do eyeliner and a little powder, and I fill in my eyebrows because mine are a little thin... I love makeup.

Tori Bowie

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In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

Ron Funches

GreatArtPeopleWorldEnoughYou

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Bob Feller

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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Alma Guillermoprieto

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The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.

Pawel Pawlikowski

ThinkThoughtNeverSameFiction

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

Timothy West

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Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.

Richard Thaler

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My belief is that we all already care about something important. We all already know what is important and meaningful for ourselves. The problem is just that many of us have lost touch with it.

Mark Manson

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