Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes
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People always want to doubt you.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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You have to like the characters you play.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.
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We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.
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I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.
