Jorge M. Perez Quotes
I have two young sons that are very interested and work in real estate. I made it a policy they need to work five years in progressively responsible jobs outside of the company, preferably in New York, and then get a masters degree, so I am making it hard for them to join.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
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Swifter, higher, stronger.
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I've never felt acting just happened to me. It's always been a part of my life, and I - hopefully, I'll prove that with every project of mine.
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
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I have two young sons that are very interested and work in real estate. I made it a policy they need to work five years in progressively responsible jobs outside of the company, preferably in New York, and then get a masters degree, so I am making it hard for them to join.
