Carlos Slim Quotes
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
