Christopher Atkins Quotes
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
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I think of my customer as a woman who wants to look beautiful and be able to walk.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
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I'm representing for the plus-size community and the plus-size industry. It feels amazing to be able to be the voice that we need.
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I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.
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The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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People are quite frequently eccentric.
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We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
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I think the United States is way behind the times.
