Virginia Vallejo Quotes
I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the richest in Colombia, educated me like a princess, in the English style.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
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I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'
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Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh.
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Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.
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You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.
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If we do not act quickly, Jaxport will fall behind competitors on the East Coast - and the economic engine that has driven this community for the past decade will be put in danger.
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I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
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I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.
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'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.
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I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?
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You can learn so much from bad things. I feel boring. I feel like, Why is everything so easy for me? I can't wait for something crazy to f***ing happen to me. Just life. I want someone to f*** me over! Do you know what I mean?
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
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I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the richest in Colombia, educated me like a princess, in the English style.
