Yasmina Khadra Quotes
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.
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It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'
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It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
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Culture is always about politics in the end.
