Javier Solana Quotes
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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There's no business like show business.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
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I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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We must find ways to support the Palestinian people.
