Sebastian Pinera Quotes
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
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I'm more of a people pleaser.
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I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument. I learned what relatives and substitutes could be played against a root of a chord, like E minor related to G, and so forth. I've also gathered all this knowledge because for ten years all I've done is play jazz, every day.
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I love to eat. I'm not the biggest guy, but I love to eat.
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I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.
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Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
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Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.
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It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.
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Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
