Jalal Talabani Quotes

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Community
  • Fate
  • Impossible

• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • You
  • Life Is A

• Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Live
  • Real
  • Risk

• I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

  

  Manny Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Get
  • Leave
  • Manhattan

• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Story

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Years
  • Baseball

• What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drawing

• I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Energy

• I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Stop

• I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Great
  • Country
  • Love

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Why
  • Existence
  • Behavior

• When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

  

  Bill McCartney
  • God

• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Running
  • Couple

• I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Kids

• The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.

  

  Deborah Butterfield
  • Transformation
  • Credit
  • Medical

• Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

  

  Jalal Talabani