Carlos Beruff Quotes
Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
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The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
