Jose Angel Gurria Quotes
If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I'm very candid.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
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Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
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I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
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Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
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Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.
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Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.
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If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.
