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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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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I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.
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I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
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When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
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Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
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It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.
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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.
