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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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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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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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
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Today is a defining moment in the breast cancer movement, because we are making progress. Twenty years ago, when my sister Susan Komen asked me to do something to cure this disease, we couldn’t even imagine a day like today. Sixty-five thousand people turning out in our nation’s capital to once again race, run, walk, and pray for the cure. It is coming! It is coming!
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Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
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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.
