Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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You keep learning all the time.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.
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The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.