Nayef Al-Rodhan Quotes
Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
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For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.
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You find little ways to keep your mind at peace so that you can, at the end of the day, do the most important thing, which is do a good job.
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You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.
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I'm quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.
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Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.
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Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
