Eugenio Derbez Quotes
I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
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Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
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I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
