Carlos Fuentes Quotes
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.Carlos Fuentes
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When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.
Karen Salmansohn -
I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
Zach LaVine -
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman -
You don't try to do more than you should.
Karl Malone -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
Olivia Thirlby
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
Wendy Davis -
I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
Katha Pollitt -
I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
Dan Webster -
I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
Flume -
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles -
It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
Patrick Kane -
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
Barry Bonds -
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln -
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.
Gale Harold -
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
T. Boone Pickens
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
Flume -
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Florence King -
Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
Karl G. Maeser -
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
R. Lee Wrights -
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
Carlos Fuentes