Carlos Slim Quotes
You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
Abigail Washburn
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
Kara Swisher
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. Michael Straczynski
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
Gabriel Macht
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
Abraham Maslow
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
Jack Whitehall
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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Home is where one starts from.
T. S. Eliot
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert
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Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
Laura Wade
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
C. Robert Kehler
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu
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It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.
Bernie Sanders
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The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
C. S. Lewis
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Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
Janel Parrish
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You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
Carlos Slim