Yasmina Khadra Quotes
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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My hunger is always there.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
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I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.
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I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
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You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
