Jalal Talabani Quotes
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I love bayou life.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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I've always been a Nike person.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.
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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
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What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.
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The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
