Carlos Slim Quotes
You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I'm totally a geek.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
