Viktor Yanukovych Quotes
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
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I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
