Carlos Beruff Quotes
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.
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Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. … They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them.
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Never explain, never complain.
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And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.
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It is important to create credit absorption capacity rather than to just enhance lending targets.
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When my blood pressure goes up, my Spanish stuff kicks in.
