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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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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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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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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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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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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It's definitely not going to be a normal day. I'm not going to cry over a few lost sales.
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Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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.
