Marcelo Rios quotes

Marcelo Rios quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage”
-- Marcelo Rios

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“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”
“There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.”
“You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.”

Source : Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.378, Vintage
“You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame”
“Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.”
“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”
“It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster
“Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.”
“Iâ€™m just a beast, Iâ€™m just an animal and Iâ€™m waiting to get let out of that cage!”
“Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.”

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