Bernard Ebbers Quotes
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.
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In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.
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We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
