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Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: About Always Being Benefits Could Creating Creator Essentially Never Out Produce Set Shock Thinking Work

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I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Am Being Human Human Being Inside Know Man I Am

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I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: About Accepted Being Century Commission Conquering Cuban End End Result Everywhere Genres Gladly Hand Heard Island Music Musical Our Popular Producing Result Small Uncertain World Would 20Th Century

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I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Also Always Art Become Being Brooklyn Degree Design Documentaries Doing Having Home Just Library Listening Little Love Loved Model Music Paint Quiet Quiet Time Reading Sitting Some Studying Time Watching Well Work

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I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Being Camps Children End Grown Having Having Children Mothers Really Refugee Seen Supposed Temporary Up Vulnerable Who

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I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.

~Alek Wek

Topics: About Being Belief Color Confidence Dark Different Different Levels Else Even Having Ignorance Inflict Insecurity Issue Just Know Levels People Somebody Start Terms Think Want Where You

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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Being Control Else Get Greedy Life Mean People Say Should Someone They Say Understand Who

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It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

~Alek Wek

Topics: Awful Being Feeling Hungry

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I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: America Been Being Country Did Enough Experience Get Had Harmonious Here Hours Inside Intend Knew Less Living Lucky May Mode Necessarily Never No Experience People Some Some People States Stay Than United United States Would 24 Hours

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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Being Building Clock Come Communism Concrete Crashing Crushed Down Freeing Instead Must Ourselves Reason Save Stopped Striking Try

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