Carlos P. Romulo (Carlos Peña Rómulo) Quotes
I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways.
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Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
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People call you "director," but it really should be "economic manager." Because everything is "Well, we can do another take here, but then you're gonna lose that shot over there." Or "The sun's going down, sorry, you're outta luck. We can't afford to." You know? And meanwhile, how do you get the performer's performance? I'm thinking the whole time all about "How can I get my day done?" And my performances are primarily a result of casting the right people at the right time in the right parts. And then I do little modifications.
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I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.
