Karim Kharbouch (French Montana) Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.
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As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
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In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.
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The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
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I have been a fan of Versace for so long, watching people like Biggie, Puff, Jay-Z.
