Jalal Talabani Quotes
I am very, very sorry for the lives lost in Iraq. I think it was a very noble job that your army and your people did in Iraq.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
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Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'
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My skin is pretty low-maintenance, but I'm a big sunscreen wearer, which I think is the big thing when it comes to wrinkles, right?
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No - not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That’s usually my only goal - to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.
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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
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I am very, very sorry for the lives lost in Iraq. I think it was a very noble job that your army and your people did in Iraq.
