Rafael Correa Quotes

Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

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• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Found

• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Way
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• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
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• I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Fun
  • Road
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• In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Important
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• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...

  

  Edmund White

• 'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Different
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• The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Men
  • Happy

• A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Marriage

• It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • People
  • Money
  • Funny

• At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Life
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• We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.

  

  Elizabeth Diller

• The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

  

  James Dickey
  • Amazing
  • Crazy
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• As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Athlete

• I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

  

  John Roberts
  • Law
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• Private Capitalism makes a steam engine; State Capitalism makes pyramids.'

  

  Frank Chodorov

• I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

  

  Nina Bawden
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• One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
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• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Music
  • Envy
  • Admire

• Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

  

  Gerry Cooney
  • Boxing
  • Back
  • Floor

• I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Guy
  • Rate
  • Crash

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia