Usama Fayyad Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Those who go along get along.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.
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I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.
