Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni (Aid al-Qarni) Quotes
Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
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I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
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There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.
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I'm a flawed character... I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.
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For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.
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I'm never trying to break a career high out there.
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
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I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.
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Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
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I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
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Is there any of me, or of any of us, that isn’t just consequence?I think, and I’ve thought it over a lot, that everything that ever happened keeps on happening, extending tendrils of itself endlessly into the moving present tense of time, porducing its echoes, and explosions and extinctions forever.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
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If I am only sure of one thing in life, it's that it's meant to be lived!
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.
