Haider al-Abadi Quotes
Corrupt people sometimes are smart; some of them are dull, but some of them are very smart. They can hide their corruption tactics.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.
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The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
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Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.
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I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.
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Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
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If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.
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I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.
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It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
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The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
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Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly happy when we walk away. It doesn't feel like quite enough.
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The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
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When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun.
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Seriously, it takes me, like, 30 minutes to do my hair before a game.
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People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?
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I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
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I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.
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Corrupt people sometimes are smart; some of them are dull, but some of them are very smart. They can hide their corruption tactics.
