Sebastian Pinera Quotes
I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Tom McMillen was a three-term congressman from Maryland. He is the tallest member of Congress. Period. He's 6'11''.
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The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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I've been very lucky.
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It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.
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Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.
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For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life...
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I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
