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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‘I know what is love. Love is man and woman in bed.’
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I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.
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When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.
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Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
