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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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
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We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don't like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.
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If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.
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Venice is eternity itself.
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The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.
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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.
