Christiana Figueres Quotes
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'
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Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'
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I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.
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The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
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In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
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We have a very different set of realities.
