Enele Sopoaga Quotes
Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
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We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.
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I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Torrid was that company that I went to as a plus-sized kid. They're the ones that kind of got me out of my shell and gave me the confidence that I needed to experiment with my wardrobe, and they really inspired me to become a plus-size designer.
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I believe that, no matter how old you are, a woman can look amazing.
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On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.
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I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
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You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
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There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
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You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
