Juan Cole Quotes
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.Juan Cole
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
Pankaj Mishra -
There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
Zainab Salbi -
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
Garrett Hedlund -
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes -
People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
Salman Khan -
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
Iris Apfel
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
Narendra Modi -
I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
Karl Pilkington -
The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
Caitriona Balfe -
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock -
I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.
Natalie Cole -
If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
Eric Lynn Wright
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
Idris Elba -
There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
Adam Driver -
My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. -
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
Ted Koppel -
One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
Patrick Dempsey -
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
Ted Bell -
I'm not saying it's the city's fault. But I'm saying it's the city's fault that those two dogs are walking around the city attacking people. And I think that the city should do something about helping her to the best of their ability.
Eddie Charles Jones -
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
Paul Claudel -
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
Juan Cole