Haider al-Abadi Quotes
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
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Vivere me dices, sed sic ut vivere nolim
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I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different things.
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Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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Iraqi oil is sold by Iraq.
