Xanana Gusmao Quotes

I fight because international law recognises my right.

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• Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

  

  T-Pain
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Done
  • Character
  • Think

• I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Money
  • Blame

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Power
  • Political
  • Faith

• I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Philosophy

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Party

• Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Reason

• Donald Trump actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that Muamar Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Business
  • Actions
  • Donald Trump

• The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women - because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

  

  Freda Adler
  • Men
  • Women
  • Law

• Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

  

  William Penn
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Cruelty

• I fight because international law recognises my right.

  

  Xanana Gusmao
  • Law