Umar Quotes
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!
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I always freak out when people ask me about my favorite bands or my five favorite records, I just can never do that because it goes through different waves and sometimes you want to listen to something and at other times you want to listen to something else so I don't know.
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And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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I know all beyond High Park's a desert to you.
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If Allah wants for a people ill, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions.
