Paul Kagame Quotes
Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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Music is about the performance.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.
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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
