Zainab al-Khawaja Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I am not proud of the King of Bahrain, in whose name people have been killed.
