Jalal Talabani Quotes
I am informing you of our displeasure over the arrest of the Iranian civilian official without consulting the government of Kurdistan. That is a humiliation for the regional administration. You ignored our authority. I ask for his immediate release in order to maintain healthy relations between Iran and Kurdistan and for the prosperity of Kurdistan.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
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When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
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This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me.
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If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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I'm the greatest critic of my work.
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While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.
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I am informing you of our displeasure over the arrest of the Iranian civilian official without consulting the government of Kurdistan. That is a humiliation for the regional administration. You ignored our authority. I ask for his immediate release in order to maintain healthy relations between Iran and Kurdistan and for the prosperity of Kurdistan.
