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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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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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
