Juan Manuel Santos Quotes
Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.
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There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
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Have a relationship with Jesus and make it your top priority. I've also learned that it doesn't pay to stress and worry, just go where God leads you.
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Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.
