Jose Angel Gurria Quotes
Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Life is a school of probability.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
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Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.
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I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: 'Open Bar.'
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Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
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In bad times, the rich usually get richer.
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Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
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Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.
