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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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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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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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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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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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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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.
