Umar Quotes
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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Tell the truth.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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Maxima superbia vel abjectio est maxima sui ignorantia.
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I'd Like to beUnder the seaIn an octopus's garden with you.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
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The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
