Alvaro Uribe Quotes
I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Choose your parents wisely.
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A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
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Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
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Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.
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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.
