Carlos Slim Quotes
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
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There is always pressure in football.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I've been very lucky.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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What I do is dangerous for sponsors, dangerous for editors. But I'm really a radio kid. I grew up on radio, not TV. Ultimately, I'll probably do radio.
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. He’s just that fierce competitor. He doesn’t want to get out-showed. He’s the one who everybody’s afraid of.
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
