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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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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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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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
