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Todo es como los ríos, obra de las pendientes.

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• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Process

• Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Me
  • Building
  • Brand

• I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Time
  • Good
  • Girl

• We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Best
  • Efficiency

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Myself
  • Creative
  • West

• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness

• If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.

  

  Babyface
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Money
  • Support
  • Government

• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • House
  • Reality
  • Acting

• In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Job
  • Know
  • Oil

• I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Different
  • Control
  • Best

• I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Never
  • Drink

• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Universe

• 'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Name
  • Bigger
  • Vogue

• Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Money

• The rise of the prosperity gospel is one of the great challenges to the true message of Jesus Christ. While not an expressly Western problem, the promises of this false teaching are often deeply rooted in Western materialism and worldly wealth. Teachers focus on a temporal reward as evidence of God's blessing, often ignoring the greater issues of justice, reconciliation, and redemption so needed in the world today.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Problem
  • Justice
  • Challenges

• ‎People who talk less frequently notice more.

  

  Judith McNaught
  • People
  • Talk
  • Notice

• I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• Todo es como los ríos, obra de las pendientes.

  

  Antonio Porchia