Amr ibn al Quotes
Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.
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Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
