Sebastian Pinera Quotes
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go up and stroke it, but I wouldn't run screaming from it, either.
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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.
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I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
