Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
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I always watch the work I do.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
