Haider al-Abadi Quotes
Corruption is a disease, and sometimes it's institutionalized. It takes years to remove it. But I want to remove it.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
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You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
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I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.
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If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.
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I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
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Partying isn't every aspect to my personality.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.
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Corruption is a disease, and sometimes it's institutionalized. It takes years to remove it. But I want to remove it.
