Umar Quotes
The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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I have a great office.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.
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The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
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The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.
