Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes
You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
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I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.
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I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate.
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.
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I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
