Bregje Heinen Quotes
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. I've never done yoga before.
