Jalal Talabani Quotes
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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My mom and I are very close.
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When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.
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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
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My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'
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I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
