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Ariel Dorfman Quotes

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: argentinian
Birth: May 6, 1942

Topics

Live Hope Imagination Without Things

There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.

History Mountain Yourself People You

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Medical Brave Action Fall Air Force

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.

Power Promotion Rise More Earned

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

Music Care New Emotion Anything

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money Happy You Now Just Million

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness Money Human Concrete Who

I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.

Pramila Jayapal

Feel Wrong Try Fix See I See

We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.

Strength Power American New Project

The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.

Fight Border American Go Egypt Used

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

Richard Holbrooke

Government Me Values Product Era

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

Beautiful Woman Beautiful Woman Rich

A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good at something, but in reality, it's clear that they don't know what they're talking about.

Good Present Reality Confident Play

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