Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
