Jalal Talabani Quotes
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
Quotes to Explore
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.
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The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
