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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I always have an attitude. Even if there are no plans, I have an attitude. Perhaps I answered imprecisely before, saying that I am just a person. I am actually a person with an attitude.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.
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Old things have strange hungers.
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I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.
