Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
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Instead, the continued secretion of stress hormones is expressed as agitation and panic.
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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
