Carlos Slim Quotes

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Youth

• Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Music
  • Expect

• I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Future
  • Think
  • Twitter

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

  Randy West
  • Experience
  • Never Forget

• The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Movie
  • End

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Happy
  • Health

• I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only been eligible to take the throne if they had no brothers. If there was a boy in the family, no matter where he came in the order of birth, he leapfrogged his sisters to take the title.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Family
  • History
  • Strong

• The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

  

  Antonio Munoz Molina
  • People

• When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

  

  Maureen Johnson
  • People
  • Writing

• In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Relationship
  • Criticism

• I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Differences
  • Dumb

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility