Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi Quotes
Before this there was one heart but a thousand thoughts. Now all is reduced to "There is no love but Love."
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.
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Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.
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Before this there was one heart but a thousand thoughts. Now all is reduced to "There is no love but Love."
