Ciputra Quotes
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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I come from a poor family.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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A disciple asked, 'Who is a Master?' The Master replied, 'Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.'
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
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At that point I was just a little too conscious to hold on to it and I woke up with that awful empty feeling you get when you realize the person who can make you happier than anything is a fucking dream.
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A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.