Arancha Gonzalez Quotes
In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.
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On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there and it wasnt.
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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.
