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Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: mexican
Birth: December 2, 1949 - June 5, 2005

Topics

History Opportunities You Back Take

That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.

Jim James

Funny Music Myself People Criticism

Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.

Jim Cooper

Home Promises Think Details Look

Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

Jerry Saltz

Life Light Water Moment World Speed

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

John Abercrombie

Listening Blues Up Guys Barney Grew

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Andrew Mason

Music Great Ideas World Thought You

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

Melissa Etheridge

Afraid Cancer Anything Anymore Once

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Anna Deavere Smith

Great Job School People Me Roots

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

Sid Meier

You Civilization Now Development Up

Valuations are actually quite simple to grasp. A company is only worth what two acquirers are willing to pay for it. Don't you just need to find that one buyer? If there is only one potential company interested in buying your startup, chances are you won't be hearing the word 'billion' in the offer.

Jay Samit

Simple Potential Worth You Find Pay

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

Jason Mraz

People You Look Know Sometimes Get

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

Diane Ladd

Great Enough Long Now Say Lived

To me, I think it's this thing of everyone wanting to make Jesus the Son of God and Jesus the only way to God that is the thing that no longer makes me want to be a Christian.

Woody Harrelson

Son God Me Think Christian Want