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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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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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 believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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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 am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
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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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A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.
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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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This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
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If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
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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.
