Yasmina Khadra Quotes
Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I like to discover new things.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
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Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
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You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
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The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.
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Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?
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Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.
