Antanas Mockus Quotes

While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.

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  D'Angelo
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• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• 'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

  

  Sally Field
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• I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

  

  Dana Plato
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• I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

  

  Taiye Selasi
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• We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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• It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• The happiest day - the happiest hourMy sear'd and blighted heart hath known,The highest hope of pride and power,I feel hath flown.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• The Seventh Seal is one of the few films really close to my heart. Actually, I don't know why. It's certainly far from perfect. I had to contend with all sorts of madness, and one can detect here and there the speed with which it was made. But I find it even, strong, and vital.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

  

  Alan Ball
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• I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Heart
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• I am a person who sings. I know not everyone is, but that won't keep the Spirit from putting a song in your heart.

  

  James A. Forbes
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• As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong?

  

  Colleen Atwood
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• Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
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  • Country
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• I don't harbor any anti-male feeling in my heart.

  

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• If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

  

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  • Stupid

• I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

  

  George Carey
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Church

• If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Age
  • Career
  • Serious

• I feel good when I come to Ahmedabad.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Good

• I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Alone

• While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.

  

  Antanas Mockus
  • Heart
  • Protection
  • Bulletproof