Augustin Matata Ponyo Quotes
I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.
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'She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.'
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He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.
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I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.
