Carlos Slim Quotes
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
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What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
