Ricardo Lagos (Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar) Quotes
My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.
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But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.
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We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
