Haider al-Abadi Quotes

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Day
  • First

• In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • World
  • Live
  • Digital

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Good
  • Kids
  • High

• I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Day
  • Write
  • Hours

• What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • Obnoxious
  • Visionary

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Death

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Help
  • Future

• I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • World
  • High
  • Myself

• Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Nice

• In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Words
  • Mood

• There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • American
  • Sound
  • Healthy

• The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Men
  • Law
  • Funny

• I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Stronger
  • Bottom

• Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny…

  

  Liam James
  • May
  • Dreams
  • Destiny

• When people were like, "Oh, wow, Donald Trump is so crazy. That's so nuts, what's happening?" in the 9 a.m. meeting, Jon Stewart was like, "No, I've seen this before, in Robert Mugabe. I've seen Trump as an African dictator. You guys don't know about nationalist rhetoric all over Europe?" "No, I thought we were the center of the world." He has the ability to actually talk about that in a real way: "Oh, I've been there. I've talked to people there. This is just the remix on stuff that's been brewing for three, four years." That's something very special.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • People
  • Donald Trump
  • Jon Stewart

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Country
  • Together
  • Serious

• We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Journalism
  • Limitations