Isaac of Nineveh Quotes
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
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You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.
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PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
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Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
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You always gotta find a little bit of time for the girls, right?
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If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
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China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.
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That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
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I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
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You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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We are not to call for tyranny and bans on freedom. It is obvious that we cannot stop publication of what we view as indecent in our sacred faith...failing to make use of Western freedom of press and other technologies to show the West the values of Islam is intellectual failure and a guilt that should not be linked to Islam.
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I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.
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Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.
