Carlos Slim Quotes
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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You went around back, where in the playground kids were dangling from the jungle gym waiting for mothers; connie could feel their cold skinned knees and barked knuckles–Bunce always said that imagining pain and discomfort was worse for her than the real thing when it came, which it almost never did.
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JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
