Juan Manuel Santos Quotes
Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.
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The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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Evidence has... been adduced that schizophrenia is widespread in other kinds of human societies. ...and they form a substantial fraction of the clientele of the tribal shamans and healers.
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...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.
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What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
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I think in terms of 20-year horizons.
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I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.
