Haider al-Abadi Quotes

We put people at the centre of securing the country. You can't secure your country with only a security apparatus and missiles.

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• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Same
  • Data

• I love working closely with people.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Working

• In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The environment shapes people's actions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Environment
  • Actions

• The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • People
  • Savage

• I’ve studied Jonestown, radical Islam. They’re oftentimes good-hearted people, idealistic, but full of a kind of crushing certainty that eliminates doubt.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Doubt

• I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Work
  • City

• Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • War
  • Courage

• We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.

  

  James Comey
  • People

• I think people really want to see the real because the world is portrayed at such a low level that if you come out with a real wholesome show, people don't want to see that anymore.

  

  Fred Hammond
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I hate hateful people.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Hate

• The first role that I played as a musical - I was 14 years old, and I played Birdie in 'Bye Bye Birdie.' That was an awakening of, 'Wow, I'm good at that. People are responding.' And I hardly knew what I was doing back then, but there was something that people were seeing.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • People
  • Good

• The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • God

• I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Time

• A lot of people have problems thinking of you doing more than one thing. If you do one thing, then you couldn't possibly do another thing well. Of course, we know that's not so.

  

  Joel Grey
  • People
  • Thinking

• It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothes not you.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • People
  • Nature
  • Hurt

• When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • Hope
  • Famous

• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Children
  • Book

• We put people at the centre of securing the country. You can't secure your country with only a security apparatus and missiles.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • People
  • Missiles
  • Security apparatus