Haider al-Abadi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life.
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Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
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Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.
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I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.
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Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
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In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
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We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange
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We cannot afford to fight our neighbor, even if we disagree on many things.
