Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes
What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.
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Stolen sweets are best.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.
