Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
