Carlos Slim Quotes
At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.
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Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
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I don't think it's anything real bad. But he had a little twinge there.
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Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
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At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
