Fernando Botero Quotes
I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
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Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.
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I love my country, and it hurts not to be able to see my country, as I did for so many years. I hope that I will one day be able to live in a peaceful Colombia.
