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Michelle Bachelet Quotes

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

Michelle Bachelet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: chilean
Birth: September 29, 1951

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Home Dreams Me Flying Reality Born

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Jimmy Carter

Peace Me Nobody Egypt Land Try

A recipe I've seen work in early-stage startups is a small tight-knit group of passionate people who are obsessed with their vision of how to fix a particular industry. Conversely, teams composed of people with a lot of specialized experience at running a large business are not as likely to do very well in the first year or two of a startup.

Joe Lonsdale

Work Business Vision Experience Year

People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

John Catsimatidis

People Me Better You Lose Look

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

Jeff Merkley

Health Best People World Care Get

For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.

Anand Mahindra

Poverty Country Years Aspiration Too

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

Simon Schama

Truth History Quality Poetry You

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.

Ronnie Corbett

Love People Lunch Care Reality You

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Michel de Montaigne

I Am Search Know Well Am Fleeing

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

Joss Whedon

Yourself Be Yourself You Always Suck

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Donny Osmond

Life Identity Think You Person Know

Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art, but most of it comes from a pool of knowledge.