Haider al-Abadi Quotes
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
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We have now armed to such an extent as the world has never before seen.
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Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy Lee Jones was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him."
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I cannot stand authority.
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Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to my wife because she was an enabler.
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Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
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Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.
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With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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I think it's important as an artist to never forget where you're from.
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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
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If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
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I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?
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I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...
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I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.
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Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
