Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes
Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
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Sí, es necesario padecer, aún en vano, para no vivir en vano.
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There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
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You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.
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Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
