Hamid Karzai Quotes
Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch, we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity.

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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.
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Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
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Time when grown men believed in elves and goblins as naturally as they believed in trees.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch, we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity.