Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I feel like my strength is surrounding myself with people who have an ear for things, and then they play it for me. I'm always looking; my ear is always open.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
