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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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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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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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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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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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I never starved myself.
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I love twins stories.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
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I've started to see records as just a snapshot, a portrait of where you were at at that time. And if you're comfortable with that, sometimes it's like an old high school year book picture - it makes you blush a little bit, but you gotta learn to really appreciate each stage of your life and where you're at.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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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.
