Jalal Talabani Quotes
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
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Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversation. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever, sooner or later they will give themselves away.
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You can have your choice of men but I could never love again He's the only one for me Jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you and whatever You decide to do Jolene...
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I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the Supreme court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school.
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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
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That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
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I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-moving aggression and momentum.
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Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
