Rafael Grossi (Rafael Mariano Grossi) Quotes
There have been certain issues, but we have been working reasonably well. Necessary precautions are imposed because of the situation but we are working.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
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When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Obviously, the US does not want a shooting war with North Korea. But there has to be some path out of this situation that is also presented that is peaceful. We have sanctions, we have deterrence, but the third leg of any resolution to this problem has to be dialogue. It seems prudent for the US to not only threaten North Korea, but to also offer a way forward.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
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People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.
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There have been certain issues, but we have been working reasonably well. Necessary precautions are imposed because of the situation but we are working.
