Carlos P. Romulo (Carlos Peña Rómulo) Quotes
All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.
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Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
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You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!
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I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.
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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
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I don't like my physique at all.
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The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
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I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
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Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music.
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All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.
