Carles Puigdemont Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
