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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."
"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
"Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human."
"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
"I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18."
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
"Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches."
"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."
"When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight."
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."
"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
"To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen."
"Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows."
"There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots."
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."
"There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth."
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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