Miroslav Lajcak Quotes
Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.
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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.
