Yasser Arafat Quotes
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I've met with titans of Silicon Valley because they're investing in our national expansion. I've had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help students in public schools. I would never, ever rub shoulders with such people if I had followed the typical career path in investment banking or whatever.
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
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You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
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I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.
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We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
