Jaime Contreras quote: "Our fanciful dreams must give way to the will of the Lord who will shape us to dream greater dreams that will allow us to live with enhanced wisdom, skill, appreciation, and joy."

Reading allows one to connect spiritually and mentally with another but never meeting that person.
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Unlike Liberals who like to speak for God by interpreting his words, I just quote the bible. I want ...
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Freedom is a personal journey and not a destination.
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We may plan a journey but it is God who guides our steps.
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Knowledge does not bring blessing, obedience does.
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You have the right to be angry but it is not always right to be angry.
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If you want the true Word of God, don't rely on and quote celebrities, priests and preachers, read a...
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The root of many failed relationships, including marriages is self-centeredness.
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Having mercy is an act of love and a gift of the Holy Spirit.
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People who confuse religion for faith are equating a flawed man-made concept to a divine relationshi...
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When faced with a problem, one must be solution-oriented.
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We would be throwing the atomic bomb ... the last weapon in our arsenal.
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The sleeping Latino giant is finally awake.
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A hard body needs a heart for Jesus. Accept no substitutes!
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The love of money leaves you spiritually broke.
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What is pleasurable is not always morally right.
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It's not what one does for a living but what one does while living that matters in the end.
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Often the status quo of man is mired in the quicksand of doubt, arrogance, disobedience, and habit.
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When one places one's self in the center of one's ideology, one will see the world and all people ac...
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A Christian marriage unites two lives & bodies with God to produce one future with God.
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Worrying about something wastes time and energy that could be used to be proactive.
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Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
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It is better to give someone the Peace of the Lord than a piece of your mind
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I seek to serve with the mind of Jesus, a caring heart of love and and a helping Christian hand.
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Good work has intrinsic worth.
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It is easy to make promises to help those in misery. But if they stay in misery and one claims they ...
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The Lord will never fail you like every man and woman can do and will.
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In life, one must gage how far one has come, where one is at, and how much more there is to go.
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Not everyone can speak or master the language of truth.
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By believing a lie you make the lie a truth for you.
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I stand for authentic courage, living with integrity and a heart for justice.
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The darkness of evil can never overshadow the light of God.
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Wnen Satan does his worst, God does His best."
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I am no longer in the place I was in but I have not yet reached the place I want be in.
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To worry is to meditate on the negative.
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Make sure that what your eyes see registers with your brain and heart.
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It is who you are and nor what you possess that matters in the end.
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"The past is always subject to the change that the present brings to the future.
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Excuses are lies camoflaged to be seen as selfish reasons.
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Whether you are glad or sad, you own it.
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The longer the chain, the more humping will occur.
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A Christian would rather be called godly, holy, devout, humble, servant and blessed than good, nice,...
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When you wield authority, you wield a God-given weapon that must never be misused for selfish intent...
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I stand on moral principles, not popular opinion.
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It is the fact that we are all different is that which makes us all the same.
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Sometimes it is not what you say but what is heard that is remembered.
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In the dark, Jesus is our light; in the wilderness, Jesus is our guide; and in the storm, Jesus is t...
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“I am the original US-born Jaime Contreras! Accept no foreign born substitutes!"
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I share the same initials (J.C.) as Jesus Christ, but I do not perform miracles just follow processe...
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I never try to be right only truthful.
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Civility always prevents hostility.
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Don't cloud the issue with facts!
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"Do not capitulate to the poverty of pettiness by judging others.”
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A Christian man should not strive to die for his family. Rather, he should live for his family.
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Our hope in God is renewed when God brings help often at our lowest point and highest need.
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Anger is a self-consuming and self-destructive habit.
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It is better to be wrong (fail) in doing the right thing than to be right (successful) in doing the ...
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Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.
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No man or woman shall dictate my character, behavior or worth.
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Don't let work become a figurative four-letter word. Work is blessed by God.
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Don't be too impressed, I do this for a living.
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A birthday is a celebration of life and not a reminder of one's mortality.
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Time. Never has such a vaulable comodity been allowed to tick away.
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Put aside the comfort of material things in life and seek the comfort of God's word.
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It is wise to avoid pain but foolish to deny problems.
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Facts are a scary truth.
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Small talk is avoiding the truth.
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One's perspective is the ultimate reality and a fallacy.
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Those who stand in the shadow of the latest popular idol will never see the light of God.
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Time is waterfall. It's forward direction cannot be changed.
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One can always compromise on strategy but never on principles.
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Christians are people who give all their troubles and weaknesses to God who in turn forgives and giv...
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God is the calming and stablizing wind, before, during and after a storm.
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Power and love together will help one achieve one's goals.
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Love is the nectar of the flower of life.
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Talking and not listening when others talk is selfish.
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It is vital to gauge from where one comes, where one is on that journey and where one wishes to go.
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Your future is guided by the knowledge gleaned from the past.
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The only Name that matters is Jesus! The only peace you need comes from Jesus. Jesus is the love tha...
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If one responds to hatred, violence and aggression with hatred, violence and aggression one becomes ...
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The good worldy person is always opposed to the Godly.
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Truthfully, God always keeps His promises but we often break our promises.
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Periods of time belong to Satan but eternity belongs to God.
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To forgive is to love and love will produce forgiveness.
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Fear is not action but a reaction to circumstances around one.
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No matter what God permits the devil to do, God is in ultimate control.
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Do not doubt your beliefs or believe your doubts.
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Do not allow the loud approval of people to drown out the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Sunday is the day of believers' community worship but Monday is the day to show faith to the communi...
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We all use our five physical senses on a daily basis but sometimes forget common sense.
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A Christian must possess a god-centered mind, an understanding heart and a helping hand."
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Sarcasm is veiled anger.
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I chose to go with God because I do not like the devils' retirement plan of going to hell.
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The tongue of an angry person is a deadly weapon that should always be kept behind closed lips.
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Silence and ignorance are a deadly combination!
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God has our future in His hands but our personal experience of it is in our hands.
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"One can attempt to teach another something but it is up to the one being taught to learn the lesson...
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A successful marriage is between three: God, the man and the woman.
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I stand alone, you stand alone, but together, we are united.
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Life is is like being in a carpool, sharing the ride makes it more enjoyable and less monotonous.
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If you act crazy enough, people will leave you alone.
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Never respond in anger for that is the feeling you will convey - anger.
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Anger is a cannibalistic emotion that feeds upon itself.
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A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart.
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When you accusingly point at someone, three fingers always point back at you."
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The rest of the NHL teams play hockey but the Chicago Black Hawks play hawkey!
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When speaking, be clear, be brief and be memorable.
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Insomnia is a bad dream from which you must wake up. And, when you do, you find that you are asleep.
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The blood of Christ is thicker than politics.
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Being PC is nothing more than perpetuating crap that a fallen world embraces.
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We have been able to provide the leadership that our community needs.
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We could do it and do it well, but this is not the right time to do it.
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If we all participate, we will empower respect and real immigration reform.
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Our community has been ready to mobilize, though we have not been able to provide them with the stru...
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This is a movement. We're sending a strong message that we are people of dignity. All that we want i...
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Immigrants are coming together in a way that we have never seen before, and it's going to keep going...
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What we want to achieve is to send a very strong message to the Senate, to the Congress in general a...
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The sleeping giant is awake -- wide awake -- and we're paying close attention.
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Any immigration reform has to be comprehensive and not mean-spirited.
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He's a simple man, and that's how he'll dress.
ALEX CONTRERAS

This 10-day tour of seven nations will show the opposite is true. We want to show that the dirty war...
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We know that this (U.S.) mission that is coming aims to establish contacts that our government consi...
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There is an official plan to hold a meeting between U.S. representatives and the president-elect.
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There are zillions of bogus degrees out there.
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The whole idea (of accreditation) is that a college education ought to stand for something.
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There will be more next year.
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We had to go through a lot of ice packs at first when the girls were learning to throw and catch. Bu...
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The reason I took them is because the have World Series experience.
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That was tough. Especially with first-year (players) and you're trying to explain a double play and ...
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I was ready from the get-go. In the first inning against Cleveland, I didn't think that I was prepar...
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God has put Diversity in our society to test our tolerance.
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Even when I was in Cuba, I hear of Roger Clemens, and I was a big admirer. I'd heard so much about h...
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THE THING ABOUT life is that you never know when it will show you something that touches you so deep...
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You can try to steer your life in a certain direction all you want, but ultimately, the wind is in c...
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Love is beautiful, shattering, moving, haunting. Love is everything.
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This (demonstration) is great because nobody cares about what's happening (with the bill). It's a be...
JOSE CONTRERAS

I dedicate this to Chicago, ... This is for the fans of Chicago who have waited so long. I know they...
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I'm not saying I hate you right now; I'm saying that if I had a knife in my hand, you would be bleed...
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I've learned a lot from her. She does get on my nerves sometimes, but I guess we get on each other's...
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It was stupid the way we played. I would have rather lost (Thursday) the way we played (Friday). It ...
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Apparently, because we only played two matches and got to the final. I thought it didn't make a diff...
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It was more mental than anything. She got in my head and I shouldn't have let her, but I did. I was ...
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It's pretty exciting. I'm kind of glad I did something for the school, also for myself, that we're g...
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I was just trying to concentrate on each point. I was like, 'This is 5-2 - we can't get any worse.' ...
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It was a little bit of a motivation, but I never let it get to me, ... I knew if I work hard, good t...
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[He paused and looked up to make eye contact, expressing sincerity that needed no translation.] When...
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The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely...
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When I would lose a game before and they were not here, it was hard, but now it's a little easier to...
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The first thing I do after a game is call my mom or brother or someone, and I don't know how they do...
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I was ready to pitch my game once we started. The rain was the last thing on my mind. I had a good f...
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At the beginning of the year, I was pitching pretty decent but I wasn't getting the wins. Now, I'm g...
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I'm being aggressive and throwing strikes, ... Finally, it's coming together.
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I've got a lot of respect for the Yankees, but I think it's just coincidence I pitched well against ...
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I think it's my best outing in a major league uniform.
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We want to help Odessa succeed. Our intent is to educate people, not so they can speak for us, but s...
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The results (of the assessment) indicated the need for strategic initiatives. As leaders we must wor...
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I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'...
JAIME CAMIL

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
JAIME LERNER

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I ...
JAIME WINSTONE

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
JAIME LERNER

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.
JAIME LERNER

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
JAIME LERNER

Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a da...
JAIME PRESSLY

I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The go...
JAIME CAMIL

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad momen...
JAIME CAMIL

Hollywood, they make up these Latinos because they have a certain physical type or a certain name or...
JAIME CAMIL

I'm from Mexico, and I've heard some horror stories about cast members who can't stand e...
JAIME CAMIL

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still f...
JAIME WINSTONE

I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized ...
JAIME PRESSLY

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
JAIME LERNER

We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?
JAIME PRESSLY

Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have s...
JAIME LERNER

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
JAIME LERNER

The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting 'fiesta,' &#...
JAIME CAMIL

I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.
JAIME KING

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true ev...
JAIME REED

Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit ...
JAIME REED

It’s like returning to a familiar room and noticing objects had been moved while you were gone—a...
JAIME REED

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing ei...
JAIME REED

She was my go-to person. I’d tell her everything. Now, all of those late-night phone calls, all th...
JAIME REED

I’d have to prove to everyone, including Ellia, that I was more than some guy she used to know, th...
JAIME REED

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.
JAIME REED

You can’t be friends with someone you have feelings for. It’ll just be a constant reminder of wh...
JAIME REED

[The legion sticks to traditional methods of instruction. A savage punch to the stomach helps most o...
JAIME SALAZAR

No one wants to see a player that young retire. He's a big weapon we have.
JAIME MORENO

It's going to be good for us, for our confidence and our belief. We just had a bad little three game...
JAIME MORENO

It's important for the league, and especially for our club. A lot of players were waiting for this o...
JAIME MORENO

[However, Lucio Filomeno helped even the game again, drawing a penalty kick six minutes into his deb...
JAIME MORENO

We just didn't deserve to win today. The hunger of winning -- sometimes you might be able to play as...
JAIME MORENO

I think everybody is tired.
JAIME MORENO

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.
JAIME KING

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either lear...
JAIME PRESSLY

I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my fa...
JAIME CAMIL

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. Peo...
JAIME LERNER

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It...
JAIME PRESSLY

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess,...
JAIME LERNER

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell do...
JAIME KING

Early versions of the infrastructure is either in place or being put in place. It's not inconceivabl...
JAIME PUNISHILL

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.
JAIME PRESSLY

Our fanciful dreams must give way to the will of the Lord who will shape us to dream greater dreams that will allow us to live with enhanced wisdom, skill, appreciation, and joy.

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Our fanciful dreams must give way to the will of the Lord who will shape us to dream greater dreams that will allow us to live with enhanced wisdom, skill, appreciation, and joy.

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