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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Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.
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My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.
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You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
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We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
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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.
