Lakhdar Boumediene Quotes

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

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• The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Country
  • Dream

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Three

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  

  Ovid
  • She
  • Nature
  • Soul

• When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Perception

• I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Love
  • Think
  • End

• Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Internet
  • Press
  • Mouth

• I love actors.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Actors
  • I Love

• I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Women
  • Community

• A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Person
  • Same

• Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Going
  • Where
  • Wondering

• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Terrible

• I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Movie
  • You

• I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Important
  • Age
  • Change

• As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Remain

• One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.

  

  Beverly Donofrio
  • Life
  • Change
  • Ruin

• The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Man
  • Duty
  • Sacred

• I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Obvious

• I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • True
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

  

  Lakhdar Boumediene