Bill Flores Quotes
If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'
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Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
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In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
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One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.
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If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
