Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.
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Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
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I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.
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I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
