Ana Patricia Botin Quotes
We are a challenger bank; let me say that once, twice, and three times if necessary because people still sometimes think of us as being very big.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I find the business world hard.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
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I'm not as good as I want to be, But I'm twice as good as you think I am.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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We are a challenger bank; let me say that once, twice, and three times if necessary because people still sometimes think of us as being very big.
