Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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I take my work seriously.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
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I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
