Gabriel Vahanian Quotes
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
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I always said... I want to be the one who creates jobs. I want to be the guy who develops the wealth of the nation.
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Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.
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The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.
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Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.
