Paredes Quotes

#1. As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead mother much more than having an impossible one. [p. 47]

Anne Lamott

#3. Only those who have awakened know that they were sleeping.

Jim Paredes

#4. The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Jon Meacham

#5. The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

Brendan Foster

#6. Tagalog sounds like boiling water.

Jim Paredes

#7. I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Jeb Bush

#8. Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn't go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn't expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn't have Twitter.

Anna Kendrick

#9. What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

William Morris

#10. What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#11. If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.

W. Kamau Bell

#12. Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything ...

Terry Pratchett

#13. We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.

Jim Paredes

#14. I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

David Liss

#15. Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

Sam Worthington

#16. Their country! There you are. Their filthy lies are all over you already. I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs.

Americo Paredes

#17. It was just that, no matter where I found myself, I felt like there was a hole inside me, with the wind rushing through. I never felt satisfied. From the outside you wouldn't imagine I had any troubles.

Haruki Murakami