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.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Always
  • Greatest
  • Equal

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • World
  • Reality
  • Evolution

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• 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.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • School
  • Know
  • Fight

• I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • School
  • Art
  • Thought

• My mom and I are very close.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mom
  • Very
  • Close

• 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.'

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Math
  • Girls
  • PR

• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Play
  • Investment

• 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.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Future
  • Past
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Attention
  • Eyes
  • Fashion

• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Friends
  • Energy

• To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Advantage
  • Disadvantage

• If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Stop

• I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don't have a good breakfast!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Important

• Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally, the verdict of 1848 is being over-turned. Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Constitution - to 'insure domestic tranquility' and ‘make us a more perfect union’? Or have we imperiled our union?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Perfect
  • Moving
  • Goals

• Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

  

  Emily Calandrelli
  • Earth

• I really love my work, so wherever it takes me, I'm happy to be.

  

  Alfred Enoch
  • Work
  • Happy

• Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

  

  Jalal Talabani