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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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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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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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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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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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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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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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
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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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I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
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Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.
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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.
