Carlos Lopez-Cantera Quotes

That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

Carlos Lopez-Cantera

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• We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Basketball
  • Watch
  • Australia

• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Negative

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Myself

• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Voice

• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • End
  • Fight
  • Development

• There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Leadership
  • Matter
  • Gender

• One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

  

  Damian Marley
  • Remember
  • Cool
  • Listening

• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Man
  • Know
  • Old

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Women
  • Why

• Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Happy
  • You
  • Be Happy

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • God
  • Know

• No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Life
  • Character
  • Me

• Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Foundation

• There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth—of the numbers that agriculture can support—and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.

  

  Niles Eldredge
  • Earth
  • Humans
  • Limit

• I was a super active kid, so I've always been aware of where my body is in space, and I think when I had my legs amputated, it makes you more aware of your body, and because I don't use my legs, I use more of my hands.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Space

• Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • People
  • Why
  • Environment

• Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Time

• That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera