Umar Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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It's tougher for women than men in Hollywood, period, if you ask me. As with most professions, women have generally not found equality with men when it comes to income and influence. There aren't as many female directors, producers, and writers, which translates to fewer complex roles for women.
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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
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I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
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The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
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On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
