Jean-Bertrand Aristide Quotes
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
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Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.
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The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.
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I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.
