Christiana Figueres Quotes

Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station.

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• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Music
  • Art
  • Potential

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Pretty
  • Winning
  • Unique

• AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Relationship

• You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Need
  • Lucky

• I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Best
  • Chance
  • Homicide

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Saying
  • Flag

• Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• There should be a place and the space for all pop.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Space
  • Should
  • Place

• My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Moments
  • Spiritual

• The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Party

• No hables mal de tus males a nadie, que hay culpas de tus males en todos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• 'Super Contra' was the game I fell in love with. I played and beat that game with my mom.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Game
  • Mom

• My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Star

• If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Reality

• A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.

  

  Gene Logsdon
  • Humans
  • Embrace
  • Wrapping

• I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.

  

  James Murphy
  • Study

• Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Paris

• Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.

  

  Derek Blasberg
  • Makeup
  • Paris

• Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Paris
  • Station
  • Departing