María Concepción Balboa Buika (Concha Buika) Quotes

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Up
  • Men
  • Know

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

  

  Os Guinness
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Seed

• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Risk
  • Impact
  • Debt

• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Self
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Father
  • Think

• My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Want
  • Car
  • Buildings

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Fly
  • Sell
  • Acid

• To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Hope

• Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Important
  • Success
  • Being

• Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

  

  Pat Burns
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Legal

• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Film
  • News
  • My Own

• I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Project

• Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  

  William Morris
  • Eye
  • Design
  • Looks

• The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

  

  Brian Weiss
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I did a benefit one night at Carnegie Hall with Bono and Lady Gaga and Rufus Wainwright.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Night

• Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

  

  María Concepción Balboa Buika
  • Broken
  • Vegas