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• Tal vez el talento musical sea algo, pero no hay personas no musicales. La música te conmueve. Es una tontería decir: "Oh, yo no soy musical". No existe; es ridículo.

  Igor Levit

  People, Musical, Ridiculous

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath.

  Bob Arum

  Fighting, Yankees, Talking

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• I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it's fairly entertaining; other times I think it's pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.

  Maeve Binchy

  Por la mañana, escribir, pensar

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• When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish

  Julio Iglesias

  Sex, Perfect, Life Is

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• Aristotle no era más que la ruina de un Adán, y Atenas más que los escombros de un Edén. ¡Cuán completamente ha desfigurado el pecado la imagen divina en el hombre! Que el hombre ha perdido su rectitud y felicidad es claramente evidente cuando observamos el estado del mundo actual.

  Robert Sur

  Men, Eden, Wrecks

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• People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Slapstick, British

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• Algunos defensores de un poder y un gasto gubernamentales cada vez mayores inventan la teoría de que los contribuyentes, abandonados a sí mismos, gastan el dinero que han ganado muy tontamente, en todo tipo de trivialidades y basura, y que sólo los burócratas, al arrebatárselo primero, sabrán cómo gastarlo sabiamente.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Champion, Firsts, Triviality

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). "Man Vs. the Welfare State", p.210, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• [Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Rights, Rocks, Caves

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• [Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful!

  Walter Benjamin

  Beautiful, Photography, Rivers

  Walter Benjamin (2003). “Understanding Brecht (New Edition)”, p.94, Verso

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• It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

  Norman Tebbit

  House, Benches, Remember

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• I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

  H. L. Mencken

  Profound, Expectations, Noble

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• La vida no sería más que oropel a la luz de las velas y basura a la luz del día si nuestros espíritus no se sintieran tocados por lo que ha sido.

  George Eliot

  Past, Daylight, Would Be

  George Eliot (1873). "Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life", p.186

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• Una estatua yace oculta en un bloque de mármol, y el arte de la estatuaria sólo despeja la materia superflua y elimina la basura. La figura está en la piedra; el escultor sólo la encuentra. Lo que la escultura es para un bloque de mármol, la educación lo es para un alma humana. El filósofo, el santo o el héroe, el sabio, el bueno o el gran hombre, yacen a menudo escondidos y ocultos en un plebeyo, que una educación adecuada podría haber desenterrado y sacado a la luz.

  Joseph Addison

  Education, Wise, Art

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.96

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• I'm a bit rubbish at knowing when something is good. But if it goes out and I can say, "I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be", then I'll be happy. Until then, I'll be thinking, "I shouldn't be here!"

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Knowing, Would Be

  "Meet the Cast of My New Show, Derek". Interview with Ricky Gervais, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Los famosos me dan miedo. Me pongo muy nerviosa con los famosos. ... Lo sobrecompenso (con) lo poco impresionado que estoy, lo cual es una completa y absoluta tontería. Así que soy un fan.

  Andrew Garfield

  People, Scare, Fans

  "Andrew Garfield back on screen, and Comic-Con, as Spidey". The Associated Press Interview, www.denverpost.com. July 26, 2013.

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• No caiga en la tentación de invertir en una muestra de cada invento de golf en cuanto haga su aparición. Si lo hace, lo único que conseguirá será complicar y estropear su juego, y llenar su taquilla de basura inútil.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Juegos, Tentación

  Harry Vardon (2010). "El golfista completo", p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.

  Sugata Mitra

  Teacher, Long, Google

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• Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Months, Faces

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• Estuve en muchas bandas de mala muerte y siempre quise formar parte de un grupo. Pero se me daba fatal escribir música. Así que tal vez un día voy a jugar una estrella de rock, o punk rocker.

  Gemma Arterton

  Stars, Growing Up, Writing

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• Si mañana se produjera un terremoto en Inglaterra, los ingleses se las arreglarían para reunirse y cenar en algún lugar entre la basura, sólo para celebrar el acontecimiento.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Earthquakes, Events, England

  Quoted in Blanchard Jerrold The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold (1859), ch.14.

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• You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.

  Quentin Crisp

  Astrology, Peculiar, Venus

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• Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

  Louis Dudek

  People, Mind, Century

  Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

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• Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

  William Blake

  Reading, Action, Reason

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.579, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Evil, Judging

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• People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.

  Tony Benn

  Derechos, Personas, Agua

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 23, 1989.

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