Benigno Aquino III Quotes
Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.
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If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
