Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.
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I like to try out different methods to get to good songs.
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French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
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Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
