Nayef Al-Rodhan Quotes
Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.
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When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
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A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.
