Nayef Al-Rodhan Quotes
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.
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I'm not just coming here for a payday. I'm not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. I've got a title to keep.
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Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
