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If they give you lined paper, write the other way.


William Carlos Williams

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JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ My surface is myself.
Under which
to witness, youth is
buried. Roots?
Everybody ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be un...
JODI PICOULT The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for '...
AMIRI BARAKA Carlos, on paper, and Carlos, the guy who was in jail, is known to be a cultivated guy, the guy who ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE GREAT Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen...
LAINI TAYLOR If they double shot him (Williams) and send plenty of work his way he may struggle at times.
BRIAN MCCLENNAN I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON I've often felt like if you lined them up and each lived through their full term, William McKinley w...
BOB LEITH I've always written music the way I felt it. I write for the public because I feel like the public, ...
HARRY WARREN You always expect the least from them. Why should I be any different than all of our other guys? The...
CORRELL BUCKHALTER If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's ...
SUMMER SANDERS In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Last year, the third grade did a big paper-making project during the recycling unit. Williams Colleg...
JENNIFER SWOAP I can remind Carlos all I want. But when you get out there against Cuba or whoever and start banging...
DUSTY BAKER The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try ...
BERRY GORDY If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If you have Cadillac Williams on your team, you're probably not very smart if you don't give him the...
JON GRUDEN To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirati...
PAUL ACQUASANTA When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us...
MICHAEL LEBOEUF If you can't write, you can communicate by the other ways. But if you can't read, the world is shutt...
PETAI JIRAKONGPIPAT I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry B...
DONALD RAY POLLOCK They found the manager of that building right underneath that blanket. His name was Carlos Garcia. H...
GARY MICHIELS Do you know how some people can do anything?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you tel...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
THE PAPER DOLL In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through,
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet...
THE PAPER KITES When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Carlos is a big part of the second team, because between him and Victor (Cortes), they put a lot of ...
CHRIS NICHOLS Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks thin...
ELBERT HUBBARD It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself...
SAM DEW When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possib...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful.
DAVID AKERS You write a hit the same way you write a flop
ALAN LERNER You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
ALAN JAY LERNER You write a hit the same way you write a flop
ALAN JAY LERNER America is unimaginable without New Orleans. If you can imagine 20th Century literature without Tenn...
ANTHONY BARTHELEMY As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the aud...
AJAY DEVGAN If you don't like dancing to other people's tunes, write your own songs.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music com...
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA If kids go to facilities where they see other sports, they give some consideration to trying other o...
JACK RIORDAN If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go t...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to wr...
RUTH OZEKI The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want ...
JOHN KRASINSKI You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
WILLIAM SAROYAN Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
STAN DALE I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's pr...
HENRY EYRING When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats...
HOWARD NEMEROV So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu...
CAROLYN CHUTE Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB If you raise $4 million by October, we'll give you the other $1 million.
LARRY LANGFORD Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of wo...
CLAIRE MESSUD He was always sweet and funny. If you needed something like a pencil or a piece of paper, he'd alway...
JANE FOLEY The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
ALEXANDER JABLOKOV It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the pape...
BUDDY EBSEN You always want to make sure you're mentally ahead of the other team. If you make the other team thi...
CHARMAINE BELL The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t...
TEJU COLE I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'...
SIMONE ELKELES (Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?"
"You still recognize me w...
SIMONE ELKELES What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going ...
DARREN CRISS They didn't feel like the paper was theirs. A lot of students can't write for us because they have t...
ADEEL IQBAL I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, ...
AMY POEHLER Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they...
SHANNON L. ALDER Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to...
KIM ANDERSEN The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you ...
JOHN IRVING They give out loads and loads of information, and give you an opportunity to hear many experts who t...
KAREN HILL Not everyone who takes extra paper during exams write extra sense
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren'...
SHIREE MCCARVER If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WI...
NAPOLEON HILL What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned ...
DAVID BAKER With other people's cows. That way if they die in the winter, they aren't ours.
CAROL SHULTZ They read. The sounds of paper between them as they turn and crease and carefully avoid touching eac...
ALEXIS M. SMITH We know Williams is effective, but the other team knows that, too. They had the Red Army down there ...
SKIP PROSSER I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON I sleep with the lights on, a pen and a paper to write on
SOTONYE ANGA Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of ot...
EDWARD HIRSCH If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
STEPHEN WRIGHT That they were very substantive, very graphic, very detailed. If she is making it up, not only is it...
STACY PHILLIPS One of the greatest gifts you can give someone -- is to LOVE them the way they are and the way they ...
LORRIN L. LEE If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make ...
THOMAS MERTON If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.
RICHARD KADREY Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewr...
DOUG HARVEY If people could write as much as they write on Facebook in one day, they could write books and be pu...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, the...
EMMA GOLDMAN Microsoft and Yahoo say they are doing this to give consumers what they want, but I think if you ask...
ALLEN WEINER Microsoft and Yahoo say they are doing this to give consumers what they want, but I think if you ask...
ALLEN WEINER After JPR Williams was involved in a road traffic accident: 'Bloody typical, isn't it? The car's a w...
GARETH EDWARDS They were all lined up anyway. It's no surprise.
ALEX SEGURA Write a program in efficient way as you write for kernel scheduler
AHMAD MOAWAD There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
BEN MEZRICH

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Empty pockets make empty heads.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Practical to the end,
it is the poem
of his existence
that triumphed
finally;...
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In other words
by its intervention
what has been do...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Their time past, pulled down
cracked and flung to the fire
go up in a roar

All recog...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Their story, yours and mine -- it
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS In summer, the song sings itself.
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since...
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old b...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Sleep!There is hunting in heaven --Sleep safe till tomorrow.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You slapped my face
Oh but so gently I smiled
At the caress.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I have discovered that most of
the beauties of travel are due to
the strange hours we keep t...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in t...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
th...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS But we who are wisershut ourselves inon either handand no one knowswhether we think goodor evil.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You slapped my faceOh but so gently I smiledAt the caress.
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS At ten a.m. the young housewifemoves about in negligee behindthe wooden walls of her husband's house...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I have had my dream -- like others --and it has come to nothing, so thatI remain now carelesslywith ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The elm is scatteringits little loavesof sweet smellsfrom a white sky!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It's the anarchy of povertydelights me.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the p...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household?
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS What power has love but forgiveness?
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I cannot saythat I have gone to hellfor your lovebut often found myself there in your pursuit
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It was the love of love,the love that swallows up all else,a grateful love,a love of nature, of peop...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Again I reply to the triple windsrunning chromatic fifths of derisionoutside my window:Play louder.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You sullen pig of a manyou force me into the mudwith your stinking ash-cart!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Well--all things turn bitter in the endwhether you choose the right orthe left wayand--dreams are no...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be d...
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS When I am alone I am happy.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Say it! No ideas but in things.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Everyone in this life is defeated. But a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This is where the difficulty lies. We are lucky when that underground current can be tapped and the ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS When I was youngerit was plain to meI must make something of myself.Older nowI walk back streetsadmi...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me,...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Night is a room darkened for lovers. . . .
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell.
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS With what deep thirstwe quicken our desiresto that rank odor of a passing springtime!
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal int...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I am lonely, lonely.I was born to be lonely,I am best so!
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Nothing whips my blood like verse.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS My surface is myself.
Under which
to witness, youth is
buried. Roots?
Everybody ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We are a half-mad race, and what we say is not to be trusted.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward wh...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a s...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
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across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS It is at the edge of the
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WENDY CARLOS Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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CARLOS FUENTES Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE We continue to be bullish on China.
CARLOS GHOSN First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou...
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CARLOS SLIM You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment....
CARLOS SLIM In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and...
CARLOS SLIM If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more...
CARLOS SLIM We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
CARLOS SLIM Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about the...
CARLOS SLIM There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
CARLOS SLIM When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architect...
CARLOS SLIM If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
CARLOS SLIM How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of al...
CARLOS SLIM Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sp...
CARLOS SLIM I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping other...
CARLOS SLIM At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I c...
CARLOS SLIM You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are ...
CARLOS SLIM You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technolog...
CARLOS SLIM You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
CARLOS SLIM It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give bette...
CARLOS SLIM The biggest things in life are not materials.
CARLOS SLIM The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting t...
CARLOS SANTANA You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, beca...
CARLOS SANTANA First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to...
CARLOS SANTANA Stay in your heart.
CARLOS SANTANA I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring...
CARLOS SANTANA I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANA The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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CARLOS SANTANA There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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CARLOS SANTANA Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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CARLOS SANTANA Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now...
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CARLOS SANTANA Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smili...
CARLOS SANTANA Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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CARLOS SANTANA I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most day...
CARLOS PONCE Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi...
CARLOS PONCE I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
CARLOS PONCE I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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CARLOS PONCE I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
CARLOS PONCE I have reached a limit in my work.
CARLOS MESA I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia'...
CARLOS MESA My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed...
CARLOS MESA I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
CARLOS MESA I want Bolivians to support their president.
CARLOS MESA We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel commi...
CARLOS MESA Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
CARLOS MESA The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizi...
CARLOS MESA Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
CARLOS MESA There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their suc...
CARLOS GHOSN Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of product...
CARLOS GHOSN In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is no...
CARLOS GHOSN I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next ...
CARLOS GHOSN Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a prof...
CARLOS GHOSN More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going glo...
CARLOS GHOSN Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
CARLOS GHOSN Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
CARLOS GHOSN When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want...
CARLOS GHOSN I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to ...
CARLOS GHOSN Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different...
CARLOS GHOSN Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much m...
CARLOS GHOSN You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opin...
CARLOS GHOSN If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you...
CARLOS GHOSN Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
CARLOS GHOSN The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
CARLOS GHOSN I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvem...
CARLOS GHOSN You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
CARLOS GHOSN My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
CARLOS FUENTES I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the write...
CARLOS FUENTES Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
CARLOS FUENTES Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
CARLOS FUENTES I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
CARLOS FUENTES I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
CARLOS FUENTES The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
CARLOS FUENTES What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ...
CARLOS FUENTES You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
CARLOS FUENTES I love having critics for breakfast.
CARLOS FUENTES The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ...
CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who...
CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000...
CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo...
CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...
CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what...
CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
CARLOS FUENTES To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif...
CARLOS CASTANEDA Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
CARLOS CASTANEDA The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
CARLOS CASTANEDA A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and lau...
CARLOS CASTANEDA We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe...
CARLOS CASTANEDA The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historica...
CARLOS CASTANEDA We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
CARLOS CASTANEDA Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this pat...
CARLOS CASTANEDA In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps ba...
CARLOS ALVAREZ Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
CARLOS ALVAREZ In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b...
CARLOS ALVAREZ If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ...
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
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