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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If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
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Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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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.
