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

• 'Yes,' said Tigger, 'they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good

• As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

  

  J_K_Bharavi
  • May
  • Words
  • Bitter

• Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wisdom
  • Happiness
  • Important Part

• In Marvel Comics, the worst thing was always that your loved ones could be attacked, or you could be horribly beaten in a knock-down, drag-out fight, but in the Superman comics, you would be run out of town with people throwing rotten vegetables at you and waving a sign that said, 'Superman, Who Needs You?'

  

  Mark Waid
  • People
  • Superman

• We wanted to protect some planets that the Empire wanted to destroy. Not outright, not even the Empire’s that evil.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Protect
  • Destroy
  • Planets

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

  

  Lakhdar Boumediene