Umair Haque Quotes
If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.
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When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.
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After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is.
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Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.
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If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.
