Alvaro Uribe Quotes
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.
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What you are about to read is not an aberration: it can happen in your local university too. The Big U, simply, was a few years ahead of the rest.
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I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.
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When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
