Yasser Arafat Quotes
In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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On the day that you were bornThe angels got togetherAnd decided to create a dream come trueSo they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of goldAnd starlight in your eyes of blue.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.
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The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
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Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.
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I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
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Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
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In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.
