Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.
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Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.
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We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
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The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.
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Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.
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Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
