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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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"
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Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.
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I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
