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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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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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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The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
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There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.
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Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.
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Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.
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I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
