Christiana Figueres Quotes
I see a growing consensus that $100 billion will be the floor and not the ceiling.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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If it is just another run-of-the-mill show, then what is the point?
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I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.
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I see a growing consensus that $100 billion will be the floor and not the ceiling.
