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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You're pale and you're cold, and you reek like steel.
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If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.
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Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Which, coming from a vampire, was pretty rich.
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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.
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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.
