Christiana Figueres Quotes
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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Were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: “Yes, of course.” Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.
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When times are at their worst, it's amazing what people will do for you.
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A dream role is a role that you can't even picture for yourself. Everything I've ever played I never pictured I would get a chance to play. It [has] gone beyond my wildest dreams. One thing I would love to do in my lifetime is a movie musical. I've wanted to do that since I was a kid. That's what made me interested in acting in the first place. I would do any type of musical, but I love the Harlem Renaissance era. I think a dream role in something that I probably can't see and I don't know when it's going to come.
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It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.
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The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.
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We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.
