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.

Carlos P. Romulo

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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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• 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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• Non sibi sed domino grauis est quae seruit egestas.

  

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• I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.

  

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• Lever à six, coucher à dix,Dîner à dix, souper à six,Font vivre l'homme dix fois dix.

  

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• Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
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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.

  

  Carlos P. Romulo
  • Wish
  • Matter
  • Luck