Yasmina Khadra Quotes
Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.
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You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
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If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
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I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.
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Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.
