Christiana Figueres Quotes
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
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Your whole perspective changes on what's possible. You can make dreams happen.
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.
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I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
