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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
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I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.
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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.
