Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Quotes
Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.
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At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.
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If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.
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Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.
