Walter Russell Mead Quotes
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
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I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'
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I'm living the dream, man.
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Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.
