Pedro Pierluisi Quotes
The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. Some were depressed; some were apathetic; some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren.
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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
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There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.
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The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it.
