Carlos Slim Quotes
We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
Quotes to Explore
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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My next thing could be something in hardware. It's never been easier to turn bits into atoms.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.
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The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
