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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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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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
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Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!
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I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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So far as travel advice to Kenya is concerned, it already warns of possible dangers and we will be reviewing that straight away.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
