Hamid Karzai Quotes
The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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'Perhaps our reservoir of spiritual faith has run out.''Perhaps it should have run out a long time ago,' I said sternly. 'Superstition has taken a terrible toll on our species. Wars...pogroms...resistance to logic and science and medicine...not to mention gathering power in the hands of people like those who run the Pax.'
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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I'm a very big believer in fate.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
